{"id":393349,"date":"2026-01-27T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393349\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:30:08","slug":"doomsday-clock-2026-live-world-closer-than-ever-to-midnight-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393349\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Clock 2026 LIVE: World closer than ever to midnight | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Doomsday Clock has been moved forward to 85 seconds to midnight &#8211; the closest to midnight it&#8217;s ever been.<\/p>\n<p>This signifies that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) has determined humanity is closer to a global, man-made catastrophe than last year. These issues include nuclear war, climate change, or disruptive technologies like AI.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Bell, the CEO of the BAS, said: &#8220;Humanity has not made sufficient progress on the existential risks that endanger us all. We thus move the clock forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Doomsday Clock is a tool for communicating how close we are to destroying the world with technologies of our own making.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The risk we face from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies are all growing. Every second counts and we are running out of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the time was moved to 89 seconds (1 minute, 29 seconds) before midnight, the closest it has ever been set to midnight since its inception in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW OUR BLOG BELOW FOR MORE UPDATES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Doomsday Clock has been moved forward to 85 seconds to midnight &#8211; the closest to midnight it&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[141,147938,147940,147939,49,50,9292,51,47,52,48,2660],"class_list":["post-393349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-doomsday-clock-2026","tag-doomsday-clock-announcement","tag-doomsday-clock-live","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-section"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}