Doomsday Clock: Threat of global apocalypse has not cooled off in past 12 months

The clock is a symbolic timepiece showing how close the world is to ending.

The Doomsday Clock has remained at 90 seconds to midnight for a second year in a row, Picture: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists/PA Wire

The Doomsday Clock has remained at 90 seconds to midnight for a second year in a row.

Maintaining last year’s setting means the clock’s keepers at the Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists believe the threat of global apocalypse has not cooled off in the past 12 months.