You have really lost track of the clock metaphor if you manually wiggle the minute hand backward or forward annually
The Doomsday Clock was originally a one-off magazine cover design by Martyl Langsdorf , a landscape artist who was married to one of the Manhattan Project physicists. She happened to set the clock at about seven minutes to midnight, but the visual metaphor was irresistible. As the arms race and nuclear proliferation began, the editors of the Bulletin started rearranging Langsdorf’s clock face as an index of the danger from nuclear exchange.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the clock closer to midnight as the world was learning to live with nukes and nuclear proliferation. Eventually the hand was moved backward in 1960 — practically in time for the frightening Cuban Missile Crisis.Article content There are other problems with the metaphor: I’m not sure how midnight got designated a moment of disaster in the first place, unless it was under the influence of the story of Cinderella. As Hopper sometimes observes when he’s ranting about the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is now dedicated to finding/hypothesizing/doing PR for other sources of existential risk, including climate change, “disruptive technologies” and bioweaponry .
It had Einstein’s holy imprimatur and took contributions from names like Hans Bethe, Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller and Max Born. The Bulletin was meant to be the voice of these masters of nature in the setting of the altered political agenda. No one had to ask what right they had to help shape the future: they’d already done it.Science and Security Board
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