The “Doomsday Clock,” which symbolizes the level of tension in the world due to the nuclear threat, has been moved one second closer to midnight to 89 seconds.
This clock was launched in 1947 during the “Cold War,” when the hands of the clock were set at seven minutes to midnight. In recent years, they have only moved forward.
In 2020, the hands moved forward by 20 seconds, showing 100 seconds until “nuclear midnight.” The “calmest” time was recorded in 1991, when the clock's hands were 17 minutes from the nuclear cataclysm.
The time remaining until midnight symbolizes the tension of the international situation and the progress of the development of nuclear weapons. Midnight itself symbolizes the moment of nuclear cataclysm.
