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A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.
Sep 26, 2009 · Mr. PETER SELLERS (Actor): (As President Merkin Muffley) The Doomsday Machine? What is that? RAZ: It was a system designed to unleash global nuclear Armageddon if Russia were attacked.
I had always assumed that the "doomsday device" described in Dr. Strangelove was a satirical joke. After all, it sounds preposterous, and I had no idea that cobalt had any relation whatsoever to thermonuclear weapons. This is how the weapon is described:
Doomsday machine, hypothetical device that would automatically trigger the nuclear destruction of an aggressor country or the extinction of all life on Earth in the event of a nuclear attack on the country maintaining the device.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 19, 2022 · The Doomsday Clock’s experts have the unenviable job of identifying and weighing potential apocalypses, as well as our progress as a society—or lack of it—in avoiding them.
Sep 21, 2009 · That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and...
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Sep 7, 2007 · The Soviet doomsday device -- a giant cobalt bomb rigged to explode were Russia ever nuked, rendering the earth's surface uninhabitable -- gained fictional fame in Dr. Strangelove.
