Seven minutes to midnight, still
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which gives us doomsday in handy clock form, is holding a contest to design displays for its virtual museum. Winning entries will depict the eighteen settings of the clock’s hands, which have tracked worldwide nuclear anxieties since 1947.
The magazine’s board moved the clock two minutes closer to midnight in 2002, citing a lack of progress in arms control along with attempts by terrorists to acquire nuclear and biological weapons. We remain at 23:53.