As the Doomsday Clock is set one second closer to midnight and war rages on worldwide, Charlotte Cripps meets the people ...

It was upsetting because I’ve asked him before if he’s a prepper. He told me he isn’t, but that he doesn’t want to be a frog in boiling water who doesn’t notice when things start to heat up.

The "preppers" had a variety of reasons for their doomsday stashes. Some worried about food and water shortages after natural disasters, others wanted to be ready for war, deadly pandemic diseases ...

After the government advised households to have enough supplies for at least three days in case of a national emergency, attention has turned to people whose doomsday preparations are a way of life.

Just last month, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set their symbolic Doomsday Clock forward one ... and in 2019 researched the prepper mindset for the European Association of Personality Psychology.