The symbolic clock is now set closer to midnight than it has ever been in its 78-year history.
The symbolic clock remains perilously close to armageddon with 'billions of lives' currently under threat.
Conspiracy theorists now maintain that the whole world will come to an end by the end of this month.
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell believes that visitors from space may have prevented armageddon.
Celebrated physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has said that he believes we may face nuclear armageddon.