By Marc Ramsingh
What is the Doomsday Clock?
In 1947 the Chicago Atomic Scientists, who previously worked on The Manhattan Project, created a measurement to show how close humanity was to destruction. This instrument is known as the “Doomsday Clock” and was initially set to seven minutes to midnight.
The Doomsday Clock is designed to be an estimate of roughly when the world will experience its “doom” based on factors such as climate change, geopolitical events, and technological advancements. Originally, the clock only measured the threat of nuclear annihilation; that changed in 2007 to include more factors as a state of humanity’s status as a whole.