The Doomsday Clock supposedly displays how close we are to world-ending catastrophe. David Frum says the clock is more or less arbitrary. He says the creation of the clock and the initial position of its hands was completely arbitrary. Frum: We can learn some lessons from the Doomsday Clock regarding the ability to quickly and powerfully communicate risk to others. The ACLU jumped on the “clock bandwagon” with its Surveillance Society Clock, which says it’s six minutes before midnight as a surveillance society draws near within the U.S.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/10/doomsday-clock.html