Oh NO! Time is running out! Grab the kids!, pack your bags!, ….Wait a minute, I’ve been told this story every year since childhood… Recently, LadBible released this panic strickened headline, “Doomsday Clock has officially been moved by scientists to signal how close we are to end of the world.”
Formed back in 1947, the Doomsday Clock was set up by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a way to register how close society and civilisation as we know it is to falling apart. It was inspired partly by the testing of the first ever atomic bomb during the Trinity Test and Manhattan Project; two events you’ve likely seen dramatised if you went to watch Oppenheimer.
Scientists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, and Eugene Rabinowitch were the three men who founded the clock, which looks at the threat of those apocalyptic scenarios we’re more than common with when it comes to watching said Hollywood blockbuster or the latest natural disaster drama.
Now, for 2025, the Doomsday Clock has been been moved closer and is now 89 seconds to midnight.
In 2023, the Bulletin moved the clock to 90 seconds to midnight and it remained there for 2024. That was the closest it has ever been to midnight in the history of the clock’s existence until today’s (28 January) announcement.
Last year, Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said this was because of a continued threat to humanity and the Earth through nuclear weapons, climate change, artificial intelligence (AI), ongoing conflict, and future pandemics.
What does the Doomsday Clock actually mean?
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor; something that serves as ‘a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet’.
It is designed to warn the public about ‘how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making’.
That could be through climate change and damaging the environment to energy uncertainty or conflict between nations.
“Since 1947, until now, 2025, we have been told yearly how close to death and destruction we are, yet I feel pretty good, how about you?”, said established author, Pastor, and National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan based out of Harrison, Arkansas. “Other than a few aches and pains, which for my age, aren’t too bad at all, I feel great. For 78 years some people wait to hear how much closer we are to being annihilated. Year after year, some people live in a persistent fear of what this silly clock will tell them the following year. To some, they don’t realize that year after year they’re afraid of what this silly clock will say, yet nothing has happened! You’ve lived 78 years in fear of absolutely nothing. This clock can’t predict anything. As a matter of fact, the Bible states that fortune telling is a sin, yet every year, some fall victim to this government fear mongering. What miserable lives they must be living. If you’re looking to find out how much longer you will live, turn to your Bible. Of course the Bible doesn’t give you the exact day or time of your death, but it will be closer than a non-existant clock. Look to God for your answers. Pray for your White brothers and sisters, and live a Godly life. Not only will you feel better, you’ll learn the basic ways in which our God commands us to live. Death doesn’t need to be a bad or fearful thing, not once you begin to understand our loving God. Believe in God, not some silly clock.”
