The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is reading the Doomsday Clock it has been maintaining for the past 79 years tomorrow (January 27th, 2026). The Doomsday Clock provides an estimated reading of how close to or far away from nuclear Armageddon the world is now.
Estimated to be 89 seconds away from thermonuclear midnight at the last reading, no one knows what it currently is. Judging from the current wrangling in global politics, no one will be surprised if tomorrow’s reading is much, much closer, dangerously so.
The platform has since added climate change, Artificial intelligence and information warfare (mis and dis-information) as additional sources of world-consuming catastrophes.
The members of the Science and Security Board whose opinion decides the reading of the clock do so through their answer to just two questions: (a) Is humanity safer or at greater risk this year than last year? (b) Is humanity safer or at greater risk compared to the 79 years the clock has been set?
Interestingly, the announcement coming up in the morning of January 27th, 2026 (Washington time) will be made in Washington DC where much of the global tumult originates from currently. Just as well, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists itself which came into being from scientists at the University of Chicago who were involved in the Manhattan Project from where the earliest nuclear weapons emerged are also USA based.
So, from whichever angles, the US is at the center of this global fear of Armageddon, from the scientists trying to alert the world on how far or how close to the university where the idea originated to the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace where the announcement will be made to the USA itself as the most nuclear armed power feared to be most likely to provoke a nuclear Armageddon!
Great that January 27th, 2026 is only a few hours away!
