Doomsday Clock moved forward to 100 seconds to midnight

Symbolic countdown calculated annually in response to events the previous year

2. 1952

US tests first hydrogen

bomb

1. 1949

USSR’s first nuclear test

3. 1991

End of cold

war

4. 1998

India and Pakistan tit-for-tat nuclear tests

5. 2006

North Korea conducts

nuclear test

6. 2015

Worsening climate change and nuclear

weapons

modernisation

7. 2017

Trump’s comments on climate change and nuclear

proliferation

8. 2019

Information warfare exacerbates existing threats

9. 2019

Existing threats grow with the erosion of the international order

3. 1991

End of cold

war

1. 1949

USSR’s first nuclear test

2. 1952

US tests first hydrogen

bomb

6. 2015

Worsening climate change and nuclear

weapons

modernisation

4. 1998

India and Pakistan tit-for-tat nuclear tests

5. 2006

North Korea conducts

nuclear test

7. 2017

Trump’s comments on climate change and nuclear

proliferation

8. 2019

Information warfare exacerbates existing threats

9. 2020

Existing threats grow with the erosion of the international order