Chicago The Doomsday Clock has been set at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest humankind ever been to annihilating itself since it was invented in 1947. This nude figure is the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists screaming emergency in the moments of the nuclear sabre-rattling, climate doomsday, AI rogue threat, and biosecurity nightmare. There is nothing to raise an alarm it is a wake-up call by Nobel laureates who are tracking our blindness obsession.
Creation Epic: Post-Hiroshima Alarm.
Two years later in 1947, artist Martyl Langsdorf sketched the clock on the cover of the Bulletin in the 200,000 ghosts of Hiroshima-Nagasaki. It was performed at 7 minutes past midnight and this was the start of the nuclear arms race as the Soviets considered the nuclear monopoly that was enjoyed by America. The Bulletin began with scientists of the Manhattan project such as Eugene Rabinowitch who authoritatively warned that unbridled bombs are doom. At midnight, they told me annihilation.
Blood in Midnight: The Exciting Period of Horror.
1949: Soviet A-bomb test drops to 3 minutes-arms race fires up.
1953: (Tests USSR-US) H-bomb closest, 2 minutes.
Rollercoaster Cold War: 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis values 7; de-tente 17 minutes in 1991 after the collapse of the soviets- still safest ever.
Post-9/11 perils mount:
2007: 5 minutes (N Korea nukes, Iran tensions).
2017: 2.5 minutes (Trump-Kim rhetoric).
2018: 2 minutes to the nail on the head (nuke modernisation).
2020: 100 seconds (mishandling of COVID and climate conspiracy).
2023: 90 seconds (Ukraine war: nuclear shadow).
2025: 89 seconds (AI arms race).
2026: 85 seconds- Trump back, China-Taiwan brinkmanship, mad-dog lab leaks, new record.
Emerging factors: Nukes (90 percent of global armaments), climate (1.5 C overshoot), disruptive technology (hypersonic, cyber), bio-pandemics.
Duniyadari: Death Dance of realpolitik.
Gone is idealism–geopolitics kills. US-Russia New START expires in 2026 not renewable; 12,000 warheads in a standstill. The Chinese 1,000-nuke sprint that they are aiming to have by 2030 targets the Taiwanese. Pakistan tactical nukes fuel Asia flashpoints, as India tested Agni-VI. The fire and fury Trump re-enactment collides with the Oreshnik missile hype that Putin practices.
Climate duniyadari? COP is surrendering, methane booms through permafrost. o3 OpenAI AI? models upgrade themselves without protection- Skynet whispers. It is time to get hot in India: Ladakh flooding, Kerala landslides are like a clock red hand.
Why It Matters Now
Personal to Ambala thinkers, it is incinerator – nuke winter scalds Haryana granaries; AI eradicates IT jobs. Clock is not prophecy: The Science and Security Board (22 Nobelists) calculates the threats every year.
Mocked by criticism, nodded by history: The reset arms of 1991. Action plan: TPNW, 1.5 o C emissions, ban deadly autonomous weapons.
Duniyadari is a type of sneaker that needs maturity as a clock sneaker. Snooze, Hits, Leaders,–or Strikes at noon. Humanity’s on the clock.
