Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

In 1953, both the United States and the former Soviet Union had tested their first hydrogen bombs and the clock moved closer to midnight than it had ever been before: two minutes til. Various nuclear ...

as the United States and the Soviet Union started a nuclear arms race. While assured mutual destruction via nuclear weapons is never not a threat, the Doomsday Clock has since expanded to consider ...

For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the Doomsday ... the clock was set at ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents ... in its hand-setting deliberations. The furthest the clock has been set was 17 minutes to midnight, in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) --The hands on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock were moved forward ... nuclear facilities in the former Soviet Union, the U.S. decision to withdraw from ...

In response to nuclear disarmament by both the United States and the Soviet Union, the time on the Doomsday Clock fell back from 10 minutes to midnight to 17 minutes to midnight. The minutes and ...