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Join us for the 2025 Doomsday Clock Announcement
Doomsday Clock announcement will be held on January 28th in Washington, DC. The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board will ...
Doomsday Clock reset imminent amid Israel-Hamas war and threats from Iran, North Korea and Russia’s ‘unhinged’ Putin
Our planet is the closest it has ever been to a global nuclear holocaust, the scientific community has warned over the past ...
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How Counting Down to Midnight on New Year’s Became a Tradition
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had introduced the Doomsday Clock in 1947 ... there are all kinds of countdowns. New York City’s “Climate Clock” on East 14th street counts down ...
The History Behind NYE Countdowns
The first NYE countdown can arguably be traced to the final seconds of 1957, when prominent radio correspondent Ben Grauer counted down the New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square, ...