It might look like a concept from a Hollywood movie, but a group of Atomic scientists fear that we are so close to a doomsday. They have created a doomsday clock to show how closer we are to extinction. This clock is now set at just 3 minutes away from the midnight. The doomsday clock is a metaphor to reflect how close we are to the perils. It is a concept created by a few atomic scientists in 1947. Ironically these are the same scientists who took part in the Manhattan Project which created the first atomic bomb! The doomsday clock is set after taking in view a few factors like climate change, global terrorism and nuclear tests. The clock was set to the maximum time of two minutes to midnight in the year 1953. It was the year when both US and Russia have conducted the tests for a hydrogen bomb. The clock represented a peaceful situation across the world in 1991 when it was set at 17 minutes before the midnight.