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1. www.npr.org › 2009/09/26 › 113242681Dr. Strangelove's 'Doomsday Machine': It's Real : NPR

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   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.

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3. www.wired.com › 2007 › 09Soviet Doomsday Device Still Armed and Ready | WIRED

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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.

4. www.reddit.com › r › AskScienceDiscussionIs a "doomsday device" ACTUALLY possible, and if so what ...

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   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:

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     Star Trek, "The Doomsday Machine" Revealed (concept demo special edition)

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6. www.wired.com › 2009 › 09Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine | WIRED

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   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...

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Doomsday_DeviceDoomsday device - Wikipedia

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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.

8. www.wired.com › story › 75-years-on-the-doomsday75 Years On, the Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking - WIRED

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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.

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   What is a doomsday device?

   • 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 über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination."

   Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine | WIRED

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   Did the Soviets really have a doomsday device?

   • Remember the end of the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove, where the entire world is blown up by a Soviet doomsday device? The Soviets really did have a doomsday device, and Wired magazine senior editor Nicholas Thompson tells host Guy Raz that the operation, dubbed "Perimeter," is still working. GUY RAZ, host:

   Dr. Strangelove's 'Doomsday Machine': It's Real : NPR

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   Is Russia's Doomsday Machine real?

   • He looks around again. Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. 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 über-hawks.

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   Was perimeter a doomsday device?

   • Prior to 1985, he says, the Soviets designed several automatic systems that could launch counterattacks without any human involvement whatsoever. But all these devices were rejected by the high command. Perimeter, he points out, was never a truly autonomous doomsday device.

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   When was a doomsday machine invented?

   • The first mention of a doomsday machine, according to P. D. Smith, author of Doomsday Men, was on an NBC radio broadcast in February 1950, when the atomic scientist Leo Szilard described a hypothetical system of hydrogen bombs that could cover the world in radioactive dust and end all human life. "Who would want to kill everybody on earth?"

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   Are doomsday devices based on salted hydrogen bombs?

   • Many hypothetical doomsday devices are based on salted hydrogen bombs creating large amounts of nuclear fallout.

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10. movies.stackexchange.com › questions › 57546In Dr. Strangelove, what is the device Soviet Ambassador ...

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    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.