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Today’s announcement moved the clock from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds. The closest it’s ever been.
I’m always surprised when the Doomsday Clock is referred to as if it’s something that actually exists and has real-world implications. It’s just Groundhog Day for cynics. >

And considering when it was first created in 1947, they set the time at 7 minutes to midnight. The scale is entirely meaningless. >

does the clock ever move backwards? >

Yep, it moves backwards all the time! >

Do you think it's an actual clock?
It doesn't count time. It's just a metaphor for the current state of the world. The number goes down when things get shitty. Happens a lot. >

So..it’s an equation? >

Not really, it's a non-profit group of scientists that move it to what they believe is an accurate assessment to their arbitrary clock time. I don't really put a lot of belief in it's accuracy since I really dont think we're a minute and a half closer, on this 17 minute at most clock, then we were when kids were practicing nuclear annihilation drills in elementary school. >

Note the cuban missile crisis: October 1962, the Bulletin's Doomsday Clock remained unchanged: It stood at 7 minutes to midnight and the following year, in 1963, the clock's hands moved to 12 minutes to midnight, when the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty went into effect >

In fairness, the Russians and Americans were still relatively sane.  Enemies for sure, but sane. >


In fairness, the Russians and Americans were still relatively sane. Enemies for sure, but sane.

They viewed each other as "equals" when it came to force, hence the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) tag.
Now? No longer equals. Russia is becoming the new North Korea as far as yapping goes, but they still have the leftover nukes from those days. Is Putin crazy enough to go scorched earth? Do they work? Do cooler heads prevail? Time will tell.
Russian media is now painting this as a holy war against the west, and all the west has done is supply Ukraine with gear that we were about to decomission anyways. Now we are starting to send some "current" stuff. Interesting times. >

In fairness, leftover "Working" Nukes is probably only a few dozen max.
Still a very bad day. But not global annihilation >

Yeah, I highly doubt that of the close to 6000 nukes they have, only a "few dozen" are operational. But whatever you need to tell yourself to believe that Russia going nuclear is not a viable threat. Which seems to be quite common on here. 
> Putin is a batshit insane monster hellbent on world domination
>Use nukes???? Of course not! Putin isn't crazy! >

/# nukes != # of deliverables
Both Russia and the US have thousands of warheads that theoretically could be used as weapons but only a fraction are actually deployed and ready to be used at a moments notice. >

I don't disagree. But with 6000, even a fraction could cause some irreparable damage to the world. >

I'm tired of hearing of this fake clock. >

I'm going to make my own doomsday clock. With blackjack and hookers.
In all seriousness, the metric is indeed meaningless. The US is and has in the past engaged in proxy wars with the Soviets/Russians. Simultaneously,  the US has engaged in peacetime activities, like space program missions. Furthermore, since the Bulletin expanded focus to include environmental issues they ignore good news like the Paris agreement being reached, while including when the US withdrew from the Paris agreement.  They're like the Razzies, only they get more press and they're pretending they're important. >

Don't forget the Jack Daniels. >

oh we have plenty of time

The Doomsday Clock has been set at 90 seconds to midnight 

more than enough to put the new soviet wannabe empire in the trash heap of failed empires / history
so sit back and enjoy the spring offensive featuring american abram m1 tanks and f16 fighters and more news reports of putin shitting his pants.... >

Made-up measurement moves an arbitrary amount closer to a vague event.
Saved you a click. >

To be fair with the announcement of modern tanks being sent to Ukraine, there’s a possibility (albeit a very small one) of a breakthrough for Ukrainian forces. What’s that got to do with doomsday? Well if Russian forces are staring down the barrel of a major defeat things start to get hairy on how itchy they are to use nukes (again, a very small chance). 
That’s not to say it will happen, but the chances of it has got high enough to warrant a change on the clock. So I get it. >

Sounds like thread level midnight. Better get Michael Scarn on the phone... >

Dr Manhattan’s quote on the Doomsday Clock comes to mind… >

The thing is mate saying it’s a wake up call to US and that WE should invest is meaningless when we  aren’t in fucking charge of making the decisions >

I for one am excited for it to hit Midnight. We gotta throw a huge party for when it reaches a second to midnight. >

Fireworks will be provided when it hits midnight. >

When its Midnight, it will seem like noon. >

"I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as a photograph of oxygen to a drowning man." >

xD doomsday clock is like when you're sitting at the stop light as a kid trying to count down when it turns green.
Ninetyyyyyy... eightynineeeeeeeeeeeeee... zero. >

2 Minutes to Midnight is one of Iron Maiden’s best songs >

I remember it being on V-Rock in Vice City. >

“…a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as a photograph of oxygen to a drowning man.” >

Imagine using a simile to disparage the legitimacy of symbols. >

“It’s your one way ticket to midnight…” >

I hate that I’ve had a fear of dying in nuclear fire my whole life. This doesn’t help that much. >

Why is this given any coverage?  It feels like it shoudl be taken as serious as nostradamus or the mayan calander. >

Honestly I'd be much more interested in news about either of those two things.
I only came here to complain, and was pleasantly surprised to see that basically everybody agrees this "clock" is a stupid fucking gimmick.
Who pays for this? >

Do you really think it's a gimmick with the current risk of nuclear escalation and climate change?
The clock isn't meant to be taken to heart, it's meant to be a metaphor of how close we are to our own destruction. If anything, we should be heeding this as a wake-up call to demand global peace and to invest more seriously into technologies that can help curb climate change. >

There's this assumption that the Russians can Field 1000s of ICBM nuclear weapons when they couldn't field 100s of serviceable tanks against Ukraine that calls it all into question. >

The Doomsday Clock is the most masturbatory bunch of bullshit in existence. >

It’s absolutely just fear mongering that does literally nothing or any really indicator of anything >

Doomsday Clock go fuck yourself >

What's it now at?  11:63? >

I figured a group of scientists would use a more creative idea to quantify the likelihood of a global catastrophe, but no they use a stupid clock that readjusts itself arbitrarily. Mighty fine science, guys. >

Seriously, May I just say STFU with the Doomsday Clock BS?! End of the world horseshit. There has to be less provocative, catastrophic language that can be used to say that we need to change. >

Less provocative and catastrophic language doesn’t generate views. People love being scared, and will make up stuff to be scared over >

What happens at 01:00? >

We regret adjusting for Daylight Saving Time. >

Lol well until someone makes a more devastating weapon, welcome to the stranglehold. >

10 seconds as if there’s quantitatively a real life way to figure when Armageddon is at hand. 😂 >

everyone here made me feel so much better, I didnt know anything about the doomsday clock and I had a massive anxiety attack over this whole thing, thank you everyone who made my night a lil easier lmao >

Damn, I'm going to have to stay in my bunker. Policy is that I can't leave until the Doomsday Clock reads more than five minutes and the Terror Alert Level is blue. >

The Doomsday Clock is navel-gazing by a bunch of intellectuals with nothing better to do. The one positive contribution it's made is being a cool motif in Watchmen. >

lol i hope they will one day move it to midnight and declare that the world is actually ending. >

I get this clock is fake… 
But the sheer amount of people who couldn’t be bothered and act as if the world ending has no impact on their lives is concerning. >

If the world ends, what does it matter? >

There’s a lot of different kind of endings and maybe I’m a dreamer but just maybe if enough people get scared BEFORE shit hits the fan, maybe we would start holding people accountable.
This planet is a tinder box at the moment >

That or it has to get really fucking bad before it gets better, Star Trek style. >

The clock the cried doomsday. >

Just give us the squid already ffs >

Let me get my lawn chair and fancy bubbly out! The clock has moved! 
Jokes aside, don't get too worked up over this. The clock is just a reference for the possibility of things going tits up and or pointing out that tensions are currently high. Proceed as normal >

Today's Threat Level:  Orange >

Code brown! We have a code brown! >

The worst code💩 >

Make sure you have your brown pants! >

As someone born in the 90’s I’d love to know what it’s like to live in world not on the verge of killing itself. >

So you need to go way back to like... The 30s? >

The dumsday clock. Born in the 70's, every 5-10 years there is another major crisis that could end known civilization as we know it. As far as history goes, there has always been impending doom!...Which reminds me...time to boot up that game.