The Doomsday Clock says it’s two minutes to nuclear midnight and the potential annihilation of the human race.

The clock, developed and adjusted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, will provide a new time for 2019 by the end of January that determines whether the nuclear risk has increased.

The last time the clock stood still was when it went unchanged at three minutes to midnight as 2015 passed into 2016. It has lost 30 seconds each of the last two years.

The Doomsday Clock, begun in 1947, speaks to the global disaster of nuclear war, though it also now factors in climate change. The 2018 report from president and CEO Rachel Bronson, made these observations a year ago: