19 Facts About Doomsday Clock

1. Doomsday Clock is a 2017 superhero comic book limited series published by DC Comics, being written by Geoff Johns, with art from penciller Gary Frank and colorist Brad Anderson.

2. Doomsday Clock dates back to 1947, when the scientists who participated in the Manhattan Project wanted to create a mechanism to warn of escalating global tensions and the danger of global Armageddon.

3. Doomsday Clock currently hangs in the University of Chicago office of the Bulletin.

4. Doomsday Clock ticked over to two minutes before midnight in 1953, when the Soviet Union and USA tested new hydrogen bombs within a few months of each other.

5. Doomsday Clock has edged closer to midnight only once before: In 1953, it was moved to two minutes to midnight after the United States and the Soviet Union both tested hydrogen bombs, kicking off the mid-century nuclear-arms race.

6. In 1947, during the Cold War, the Doomsday Clock was started at seven minutes to midnight.

7. Doomsday Clock may yet roll back from the 2-minute mark; after all, it did in 1960, when BAS reset it to 7 minutes to midnight.

8. Doomsday Clock is run by a group of people who produce an academic journal called the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

9. Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face that represents a countdown to possible global catastrophe.

10. Doomsday Clock is not a measurement of time, probability or distance.

11. Doomsday Clock is an ongoing limited edition series, in which a universe of Batman and Superman gets intruded by characters of the dark world of 'Watchmen' by Alan Moore.

12. Doomsday Clock can be downloaded here and embedded to any website as an iframe.

13. Doomsday Clock was developed by Concordia University professor and research chair in climate science, Damon Matthews and Canadian musician David Usher.

14. Doomsday Clock warns of a 1.5°C and 2°C increase in global temperatures by the year 2034.

15. Doomsday Clock is one of the smartest commentaries on the modern world around.

16. Doomsday Clock picks up immediately in the aftermath of Watchmen's cataclysmic ending.

17. Doomsday Clock is a story that arrived right on time.

18. Doomsday Clock represents the hypothetical global catastrophe as "midnight" and The Bulletins opinion on how close the world is to a global catastrophe as a number of "minutes" to midnight.

19. Doomsday Clock is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe.