Is humanity doomed? Doomsday Clock will be updated TOMORROW to determine our fate - so, will it tick closer to midnight?
Is humanity doomed? Doomsday Clock will be updated TOMORROW to determine our fate - so, will it tick closer to midnight?
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Tomorrow, humanity will find out if we're closer to total self-destruction when the Doomsday Clock is updated. The symbolic clock, which edges closer to midnight to reflect human-made global catastrophes, will be revealed during a livestream on Tuesday (January 28).
![[Is humanity doomed? We will finally find out, as the Doomsday Clock - a symbolic clock, which edges closer to midnight to reflect human-made global catastrophes - is updated for 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/08/80303857-14328687-Is_humanity_doomed_We_will_finally_find_out_as_the_Doomsday_Cloc-a-2_1737965844396.jpg)
Since 2023, it has been set at 90 seconds to midnight, but this year scientists say it could move forward to reflect the troubling global outlook. The Russia-Ukraine war, Israel's ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, and the threat of nuclear war and climate change all mean the clock could tick forwards for the first time in two years.
![[In 2024, the hands did not move to reflect an unchanging global situation, but some experts say it will move tomorrow (January 28)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/09/94551133-14328687-image-a-5_1737968517562.jpg)
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which decides where the hands are set, will unveil the updated clock in a livestream at 10am EST (3pm GMT). It says on its website: 'For 2025, the Bulletin's Science and Security Board will consider multiple global threats in the clock setting.
![[Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is why humankind is the 'closest it has ever been to annihilation' - 90 seconds to midnight]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/08/91530987-14328687-In_a_video_message_to_his_generals_Vladimir_Putin_claimed_his_co-a-17_1737966657045.jpg)
'[These include] the proliferation of nuclear weapons, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, the Russia-Ukraine war, Israel-Hamas war, Israel-Hezbollah conflict, bio-threats and the continued climate crisis.'. MailOnline will also be covering the announcement tomorrow, but until then here's everything you need to know about the Doomsday Clock.
![[The the Russia-Ukraine war rages on after nearly three years. Pictured, a ballistic missile is launched during a test from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Northern Arkhangelsk region, Russia last year]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/08/91531045-14328687-It_would_take_engineers_working_the_nuclear_facility_exactly_30_-a-16_1737966653339.jpg)
Since 2023, the Doomsday Clock has been set at 90 seconds to midnight. Although symbolic and not an actual clock, the organization does unveil a physical 'quarter clock' model at an event when revealing if and how the hands have moved (pictured). Is humanity doomed? We will finally find out, as the Doomsday Clock - a symbolic clock, which edges closer to midnight to reflect human-made global catastrophes - is updated for 2024.
![[Experts at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists remove a cloth covering the Doomsday Clock in Washington on January 24, 2023]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/08/66915371-14328687-Experts_at_the_Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists_remove_a_cloth_-a-15_1737966565048.jpg)
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