The Doomsday Clock has transformed existential threats into a simple, universally understood symbol that sets the agenda, but constant high alert has led to psychic numbing, normalised danger, and failed to overcome the political gridlock that drives global catastrophe

The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to a reset of the ominous but symbolic \

The Doomsday Clock is now set at 85 seconds to midnight, signaling unprecedented global catastrophe risk.