Scientists have moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change.
The clock is now two minutes to midnight.
The symbolic clock is now the closest it's been to midnight since 1953. It was also two minutes to midnight in 1953 when the hydrogen bomb was first tested.
Scientists blamed a cocktail of threats ranging from dangerous political rhetoric to the potential of a nuclear threat as the catalysts for moving the clock closer toward doomsday.
They cited “the failure of President Trump and other world leaders to deal with looming threats of nuclear war and climate change.”
The closer to a setting of midnight it gets, the closer it's estimated that a global disaster will occur. The farthest it's been to midnight was in 1991 as the Cold War ended when the clock was 17 minutes to midnight.
The clock has been maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947.