April 3, 2023
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how dangerous this moment in human history is and the urgent need to get involved in “turning back the clock.” The Turn Back the Clock virtual tourBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, invites students to learn about the significance of the Doomsday Clock and how it has evolved to include risks humans face today. Through compelling personal stories, innovative interactive media, and pop culture artifacts, the virtual tour takes students through seven decades of history—from the dawn of the nuclear age to significant policy question leaders face today.
Students can zoom in and out of photo and video displays, enlarge panels and artifacts, and even turn around to “walk” back to previously viewed sections of the exhibit. Among the artifacts students will find are Stanley Kubrick’s doomsday machine in Dr. Strangelove; the prediction of atomic warfare in H. G. Wells’s novel The World Set on Fire; the Ford Nucleon, a nuclear-powered car of the future designed in 1958; and the world’s most dangerous toy!—a radioactive atomic energy lab kit with uranium from 1950.