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  1. 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.

  2. Jul 22, 2024 · Independent research puts the number at closer to $315 billion. All of that is money the Pentagon plans to use to build a doomsday machine—a weapon that, were it ever used, would mean the end of...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 former type of device might automatically launch a large number.

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  6. 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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  8. Feb 11, 2019 · While all nuclear weapons can kill thousands in the blink of an eye and leave radiation poisoning the environment for years to come, Russia's new doomsday device, called "Poseidon," takes steps...

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