Current Doomsday Clock Official Time Today

The Doomsday Clock was started in 1947, due to the threat of nuclear warfare. It appeared on the Bulletin for the first time, then went from newsletter form to magazine.

The clock's time was originally set to seven minutes to midnight and the Bulletin informed the world of the urgency and dangers of the new threat the world faced of nuclear warfare and advanced weaponry.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the doomsday clock hand from 2 and a half minutes to midnight to two minutes to midnight due to a growing number of nuclear threats and climate change. This is the first time since 1953 that the doomsday clock has been set this close to midnight.