Inspired by the idea of a countdown to a nuclear explosion, Langdorf chose the image of a clock with hands ticking down to midnight, because — as the Bulletin’s editors wrote in a tribute to ...

The world moved yet closer to global catastrophe in 2024, with the hands of the Doomsday Clock ticking one second closer to midnight, the shortest time to zero hour in its 75-year history.

"In setting the clock closer to midnight, we send a stark signal," Holz said. "Because the world is already perilously closer to the precipice, any move towards ... via Getty Images For the ...

Photograph by Scott Olson, AFP/ Getty Images “Climate change ... Langsdorf hashed out the concept of a clock with its minute hand sweeping toward midnight—symbolizing, as she said, “the ...