The bulletin is suppose to release a new website and make a “Major Announcement”.

It is speculated the doomsday clock will be moved closer to midnight. It last changed to seven minutes before midnight back in 2002. I would speculate that it will move at least three (if not more) minutes closer to midnight. Which would put it on par with its setting back in 1984. Definitely not a good thing folks.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists site: http://www.thebulletin.org

For those that don’t know who they are you can check out wikipedia listing.

Supposedly the update is to occur at 9:30EST. This should be interesting (I use the term very very lightly) for sure.

UPDATE:
They have released their new site (much improved) with the clock now 5 minutes to midnight! I was a minute too fast, thank goodness. But still…yikes, this is not a good thing folks.

Two excerts from the site:

“We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices.“

AND

“This deteriorating state of global affairs leads the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists–in consultation with a Board of Sponsors that includes 18 Nobel laureates–to move the minute hand of the “Doomsday Clock” from seven to five minutes to midnight.”

Governments, it is time to listen and stop playing with the oil.