Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight

Symbolic countdown calculated annually in response to events the previous year

1.

1949

2.

1952

USSR’s first

nuclear test

US tests first

hydrogen

bomb

3.

1991

4.

1998

End of

cold war

India and

Pakistan

tit-for-tat

nuclear tests

6.

2015

5.

2006

North Korea

conducts

nuclear test

Climate change

and nuclear

weapons

modernisation

7.

2020

8.

2023

Erosion of

nuclear arms

control and

inadequate

climate crisis response

Mounting

nuclear

risks in

Ukraine war

9.

2024

Hottest year on record

1.

1949

2.

1952

3.

1991

USSR’s first

nuclear test

US tests first

hydrogen

bomb

End of cold war

4.

1998

5.

2006

6.

2015

India and Pakistan

tit-for-tat nuclear

tests

North Korea

conducts

nuclear test

Worsening

climate change

and nuclear

weapons

modernisation

7.

2020

8.

2023

9.

2024

Erosion of nuclear

arms control and

inadequate

climate crisis

response

Mounting

nuclear

risks in

Ukraine war

 

Hottest year

on record