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Sep 26, 2009 · RAZ: It was a system designed to unleash global nuclear Armageddon if Russia were attacked. Now, in 1964, that concept was a movie fantasy. What few knew until recently is that in 1984, the Soviet...
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.
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.
Aug 1, 2016 · It was a common trope in the 60s that a camera could be hidden in a watch or similar small object. Note the shutter click noise when he pushes the lever, and then turns the knob to advance the film. I found some discussion on The Straight Dope Message Board as to why he would do that.
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:
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 paranoid...
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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.
