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After a heated discussion with Kissov, the ambassador informs President Muffley that the Soviet Union created a doomsday machine as a nuclear deterrent; it consists of many buried cobalt bombs, which are set to detonate automatically should any nuclear attack strike
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.
Jan 29, 2024 · Writing as Peter Bryant, the Welsh former RAF officer Peter George published a novel in 1958 that was called Two Hours to Doom in the UK and Red Alert in the US.
May 13, 2014 · But, after all sorts of misadventures, one B-52 gets through, setting off a Soviet-built Doomsday Machine—chained nuclear explosions assembled in a stunningly beautiful montage, accompanied...
Sep 26, 2009 · What few knew until recently is that in 1984, the Soviet Union actually did build a doomsday machine of sorts. They called it Perimeter. It's discussed in not one but two books released this...
According to George Chase in Calling Dr. Strangelove: The Anatomy and Influence of the Kubrick Masterpiece, Herman Kahn recognised the references to mine shafts, megadeaths and doomsday machines from his own book On Thermonuclear War and contacted Kubrick requesting royalties for using his ideas.
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Jan 19, 2022 · Developed by researchers and policy experts at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who also started a magazine by that name, the clock started running in 1947, just two years after the United...
