Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsIn 1953, the Doomsday Clock on the Sep 1953 cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist (Vol. 9, No. 7) the hands were set at two minutes to midnight—the closest to nuclear Doomsday (midnight) they have ever been. It represented the great tension after the first Soviet hydrogen bomb test the previous month (12 Aug 1953), just 9 months after the first U.S. nuclear test (1 Nov 1952). On later covers, the minute hand was moved up and back over the years, reflecting increasing or lessening urgency of concern for humanity's catastrophic destruction.. A newsletter(Vol. 1, No. 1), was first published 10 Dec 1945, which later became the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Doomsday Clock cover background was added in Jun 1947, during the Cold War, as the newsletter became a magazine, (Vol 3, No. 6).« |
