28 Jan 2026

Doomsday clock lurches closer to midnight

From Morning Report, 6:40 am on 28 January 2026

The panel of scientists behind the Doomsday Clock has announced it has ticked one-second closer to the destruction of humanity. Dr Steve Fetter is a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland and a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Chicago-based organisation which sets the clock each year. He spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.