The "Doomsday Clock" is only 90 seconds away from the catastrophic milestone.

"Doomsday Clock" created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (USA) (Photo: Sky News).

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before, with the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars showing no signs of abating and climate change becoming increasingly complex. These are factors that could lead to a global catastrophe.

The "Doomsday Clock" is a symbolic tool built by a group of American nuclear scientists , including more than 10 Nobel Prize winners, to warn of the time when humanity is close to the point of planetary destruction (midnight).

Just because the clock hasn't moved any further this year doesn't mean the threats have been pacified, he warned.

BAS created the watch in 1947 during the height of the Cold War to warn humanity of the impending threat of a world- destroying catastrophe.

The world is still witnessing worrying trends, including China, Russia and the US all spending large sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, increasing the risk of nuclear war due to miscalculation, BAS said.

The Russia-Ukraine war has raised tensions between Moscow and the West to their most dangerous level since the Cold War.

In addition, BAS also warned of the risk of war in Gaza getting out of control as Israel is believed to be a nuclear-armed country.

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