Nobel Prize-winning physicist predicts the date of humanity’s destruction

These concerns come as the Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight – or the global tipping point.

Doomsday Clock ticking toward apocalypse
In 1947 – two years after “Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project” – the Doomsday Clock was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The clock, a “universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by man-made technologies,” was initially set at seven minutes to midnight – the time symbolizing an “apocalypse.”

Each year, a team of scientists, including eight Nobel laureates, evaluate global threats – like nuclear weapons, climate change, and technological risks – and adjust the clock to reflect the level of danger facing the world, pushing the hands closer toward the end point.