West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108. Callerot, who was among the last survivors of the groups ...

What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf ... From 1942-1944, about a million Canadians, free Polish, free French forces, and a huge number of Americans coming in through ...

"Through the Cold War, it [the clock] gave the broader public a sense of how close to nuclear annihilation we were. Today, it represents an unprecedented level of existential danger." The present ...

The Chicago-based nonprofit created the clock in 1947 during the Cold War tensions that followed World War II to warn the public about how close humankind was to destroying the world. "The factors ...

WASHINGTON — Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ...

Starting in 1947, the advocacy group used a clock to symbolize the potential and even likelihood of people doing something to end humanity. After the end of the Cold War, it was as close as 17 ...