The clock is now the closest it’s been to midnight since the 1950s, with scientists citing “alternative facts” and threat of nuclear arms. [Source images: National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office via [i] Wikimedia Commons ; Clock: via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists] [/i] In a series of statements alluding to President Donald Trump’s fiery rhetoric, experts from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock forward to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight on Thursday.