The Doomsday Clock has been recalibrated for the first time in three years and is now 90 seconds away from "midnight".
This year the hands of the clock moved forward, "largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine" and is now the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
According to the metaphorical clock, the world has been 100 seconds away from "midnight” — the hour of apocalypse — since 2020.
