So, soon they're scrubbing their hands every five minutes, or constantly checking the stove, or counting the exact number of steps they take everywhere they go.
The minute hand started to move again slowly but stalled a second time at 10: 20 pm where it is reported to have remained for 90 minutes before the hands were reset.
The minute hand is also mounted on a shaft through the center and is driven through an 8-64 gear reduction to the idler, followed by 8-60 to the minute hand.
In 2017, that minute hand is the closest it's been to midnight since 1953. What worries most leaders, though, is not which countries have the most nuclear weapons, but which countries are most likely to use them.
For example, between 3: 06 and 3: 07, the minute hand is actually going to be at some point between those marks on the clock showing one of the infinitely possible times that the clock can represent.