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Jan 17, 2014 · The most unlikely and absurd plot element in “Strangelove” is the existence of a Soviet “Doomsday Machine.” The device would trigger itself, automatically, if the Soviet Union were ...
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Apr 11, 2017 · In the event of a nuclear attack on a given country, a doomsday device is designed to launch a vigorous retaliatory nuclear strike on the attacker, regardless of whether or not anyone is left...
In Strangelove, the doomsday machine was a Soviet system that automatically detonated some 50 cobalt-jacketed hydrogen bombs pre-positioned around the planet if the doomsday system’s sensors...
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.
Dec 28, 2017 · The potential still exists for a devastating nuclear exchange to be set off through miscommunication, miscalculation, or an unstable military commander. And Ellsberg makes the case in his shocking new memoir, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, that such an exchange would inevitably result in nuclear winter. This ...
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.
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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...
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