On January 28th, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will reveal the 2025 Doomsday Clock time at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. The announcement will occur during a live, in-person news conference at 10:00 a.m. EST/1500 GMT.
Factors that impact the Clock’s setting include nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, and biosecurity.
Speakers this year include:
- 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.
The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.
The Clock is set by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board (SASB), which is a select group of globally recognized leaders with a specific focus on nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. The SASB provides the Bulletin with objective external perspectives on trends and issues in these fields and connects the organization to outside experts.
Last year, the Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the Clock has been in its nearly 80 years of existence.