… January 28, 2025, International Daybook Calendar & News Advisory … 

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to Reveal 2025 Doomsday Clock Time; 

Factors Include Nuclear Weapons Threats, Climate Crisis, Artificial Intelligence, Bio-Threats and Conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. 

WASHINGTON, DC – NEWS ADVISORY – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Bulletin) will announce whether the time of the iconic “Doomsday Clock” will change during a live, in person news conference at 10:00 a.m. EST/1500 GMT on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC.

In January 2024, the Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the Clock has ever been. 

WHAT

The Bulletin, stewards of the Doomsday Clock, will announce the 2025 time at a live news conference at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The decision to set the Clock is made by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board (SASB) in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes nine Nobel Laureates.

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, and it serves as a call-to-action to find solutions to the world’s most urgent, man-made existential threats in order to move the hands of the Clock away from midnight.

WHO

• Juan Manuel Santos, chair of The Elders, former President of Colombia, Nobel Peace prize laureate.
• Daniel Holz, PhD, professor at the University of Chicago in the Departments of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and SASB chair, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• Herb Lin, ScD, senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and SASB member, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• Suzet McKinney, DrPH, principal and director of Life Sciences for Sterling Bay and SASB Member, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• Manpreet Sethi, PhD, distinguished fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi and SASB member, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• Robert Socolow, PhD, professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and SASB Member, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 

WHEN

10:00 a.m. EST/1500 GMT, January 28, 2025.

WHERE

United States Institute of Peace

2301 Constitution Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20037

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The event also will be livestreamed at https://thebulletin.org. Media participating remotely can submit questions to be answered in real time during the Q&A period by emailing DoomsdayClock2025@hastingsgroupmedia.com. Questions may also be submitted in advance. 

TO PARTICIPATE IN PERSON, PLEASE RSVP TO:

Alex Frank, (703) 276-3264 and afrank@hastingsgroupmedia.com.

WHY

The Bulletin’s SASB meets regularly to discuss world events and resets the Doomsday Clock annually. For 2025, it will consider multiple global threats, including the proliferation of nuclear weapons, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, the Russia-Ukraine war, Middle East conflicts, bio-threats and the continued climate crisis.

A streaming replay of the Doomsday Clock announcement and the full text of the 2025 Statement will be available online at https://www.thebulletin.org/.