"The iconic Doomsday Clock remains poised at five minutes until midnight, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced today (Jan. 14).
The clock is no doomsday device — rather, it's a visual metaphor for the danger of a "civilization-threatening technological catastrophe." Every year, the board analyzes international threats, particularly nuclear arsenals and climate change, and decides where the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock should rest. The closer it is to midnight, the closer the world is to doom.In 1947, the first Bulletin cover to feature the Doomsday Clock — set at that point at 11:53 p.m.
In January 2012, the Bulletin's board set the minute hand of the clock at 11:55 p.m., one minute closer to midnight than the previous year. The decision was made based on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe as well as accidents such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown that occurred in 2011 after a major earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Biosecurity is also taken into account, with the creation of an airborne strain of H5N1 flu worrying scientists in 2012.
The closest the Doomsday Clock has ever come to midnight was in 1953, when the minute hand ticked to 11:58 p.m. after the first test of the hydrogen bomb. It was at its most optimistic in 1991, when the Bulletin board set the time at 17 minutes to midnight as the Cold War ended." YahooNews
Here is the real Doomsday Clock:
then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel 8:14
457 B.C. - 1844 A.D.
....even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,
and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel 12:4
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
in all the world for a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end come.
Matthew 24:14
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel
to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Revelation 14:6
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot;
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Luke 17:28,30
But as the days of Noah were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
...the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:25
...the love of many shall wax cold.
Matthew 24:12
and pestilences,
and earthquakes, in divers places.
Matthew 24:7
..and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,
Romans 1:25
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
Matthew 24:6
For people will love only themselves and their money.
2 Timothy 3:2 NLT
....lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first,
2 Thessalonians 2:3
...and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation 13:3