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The world is ticking another 30 seconds closer to the apocalypse — in part because of Donald Trump.

At least that’s the dire warning from the group of scientists who oversee the metaphorical Doomsday Clock, the hands of which were moved Thursday to two minutes and 30 seconds before midnight — the time that represents when a catastrophic nuclear event can annihilate the earth.

It’s the closest the clock has been to midnight since the Cold War of the 1950s.

The clock is revised annually, but remained at three minutes before midnight last year — the same as it was in 2015 — after positive global developments such as the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement helped stave off a doomsday scenario.

But the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a science journal which oversees the clock, said recent events prompted them to push the clock forward in 2017.

Those include a rise in strident nationalism worldwide, cyber threats, an “active and blatant disregarding” for factual science and President Trump’s comments on nuclear arms and climate change.

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Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss left, and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Thomas Pickering announce the decision to move the so-called ‘Doomsday Clock’ to 2-1/2 minutes to midnight on Jan. 26, 2017. Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA

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It might have been a barking dog, or a crashed drone, or overheard chatter on walkie-talkies. But multiple military and intelligence sources told NBC News that something tipped off the terrorist targets of an early-morning raid by the U.S. and its allies in Yemen on Sunday, and all hell broke loose.

A well-rehearsed mission that was supposed to extract computers and other intelligence from an al Qaeda camp near a mountain village turned into a massive firefight involving Harrier jets, helicopter gunships, and gun-wielding jihadi women that killed one Navy SEAL, 14 al Qaeda fighters and, allegedly, non-combatant women and children.

According to a senior military official, one of the dead was an 8-year-old American girl, the daughter of U.S.-born al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who himself was killed in a U.S. strike in Yemen in 2011.

President Donald Trump declared Sunday’s mission a success, and the Pentagon released a statement Wednesday that said U.S. forces had captured “materials and information that is yielding valuable intelligence.”

But a senior military official told NBC News “almost everything went wrong.” A senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the operation said it’s not yet clear if the mission was a success. “We went in with the intent of capturing phones and computers and we don’t know yet if anything of great value was obtained,” the official said.

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An image of 8-year-old Nora Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was killed in a raid in Yemen ordered by President Trump.Yemeni media / via Twitter

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