How many minutes to midnight was the Doomsday Clock originally set at in 1947?

If i remeber right it was 7 minutes..could be 6..but i thik it was 7

it was set at 7 minutes to midnight in 1947 on the 17 jan 2007 it was set to five minutes to midnight. so as today is 5 nov2009 so five minutes to midnight today, would be 979days 24 times this is 23,496 hours.and at five minutes to midnight tonight this would be 1,409,750 minutes from when it was set on the 17 jan 2007.

Hi
There is so much i don't know. Maybe I knew and forgot what the Doomsday clock is! Anyway I looked it up:
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, that uses the analogy of the human species being at a time that is "minutes to midnight", wherein midnight represents "catastrophic destruction". Originally, the analogy represented the threat of global nuclear war, but since includes climate-changing technologies and "new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm".The closer the clock is to midnight, the closer the world is estimated to be to global disaster.
The number of minutes before midnight – measuring the degree of nuclear, environmental, and technological threats to mankind – is periodically corrected; currently, the clock reads five minutes to midnight, having advanced two minutes on 17 January 2007.
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Apparently, seven minutes to midnight originally "The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, that uses the analogy of the human species being at a time that is "minutes to midnight", wherein midnight represents "catastrophic destruction". Originally, the analogy represented the threat of global nuclear war, but since includes climate-changing technologies and "new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm".[1] The closer the clock is to midnight, the closer the world is estimated to be to global disaster.
Since its inception, the clock has appeared on every cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Its first representation was in 1947, when magazine co-founder Hyman Goldsmith asked artist Martyl Langsdorf (wife of Manhattan Project physicist Alexander Langsdorf, Jr.) to design a cover for the magazine's June 1947 issue.
The number of minutes before midnight – measuring the degree of nuclear, environmental, and technological threats to mankind – is periodically corrected; currently, the clock reads five minutes to midnight, having advanced two minutes on 17 January 2007."