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Sep 26, 2009 · 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. World...
Sep 21, 2009 · 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...
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 ...
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...
Apr 11, 2017 · So, strangely, the doomsday device built by the Soviets may actually have been the best thing we could have hoped for. Instead of a doomsday device, Dead Hand really functions more like a...
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.
Sep 22, 2009 · Yes, the Soviet Union did build a Doomsday Machine during the Cold War. Here's how it worked, and here's how they built it.
