The doomsday tool is a hypothetical construct - usually a weapon or weapon system - that can destroy all life on the planet, especially Earth, or destroy the planet itself, carrying the "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth. Most hypothetical constructions depend on the fact that hydrogen bombs can be made arbitrarily large with the assumption that there is no concern about their delivery to the target (see Ulcer-Teller design) or that they can be "salted" with materials designed to create durable and shocks that harmful (eg, cobalt bomb).
The tools of the doomsday and the nuclear holocaust they brought have been present in literature and art especially in the twentieth century, as advances in science and technology made the destruction of the world (or at least the abolition of all human life) a credible scenario. Many classics in the science-fiction genre take the theme in this regard. The term "doomsday machine" itself is proved since 1960, but the "doomsday" alliteration has since become more popular.
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Histori
Since the Marsoto thermonuclear weapon test of 1954 demonstrates the feasibility of building a large nuclear device that can cover large areas with radioactive fallout by making everything around them highly radioactive, nuclear weapons theorists such as Leo Szilard contain doomsmiths, massive thermonuclear devices. surrounded by hundreds of tons of cobalt which, when detonated, will create large amounts of Cobalt-60, making most of the Earth too radioactive to support life. RAND strategist Herman Kahn postulates that Soviet or US nuclear decision makers may choose to build an apocalyptic machine that will comprise computers linked to a supply of hydrogen bombs, programmed to blow them all up and bathe the planet in nuclear fallout on the signal of a coming nuclear strike from the country other.
The theoretical ability of the doomsday tool to prevent a nuclear attack is that it will die automatically without human assistance and despite human intervention. Kahn acknowledged that some planners might see the "doomsday machine" as a very credible threat that would deter attackers and avoid dangerous games caused by the concept of massive revenge that governs US-Soviet nuclear relations in the mid-1950s. However, in his discussion of the doomsday machine, Kahn raises the problem of a nuclear armed state that triggers the doomsday machine, and declares that he does not advocate that the US acquire the doomsday machine.
The Dead Hand (or "Perimeter") system built by the Soviet Union during the Cold War has been called the "doom machine" because of its deadly nuclear design and ability.
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In fiction
The apocalypse began to become more common in science fiction in the 1940s and 1950s, due to the discovery of nuclear weapons and the constant fear of total destruction. A famous example is in the film Dr. Strangelove (1964), where the Dead Hand is triggered by an imperfect American attack, and all life on Earth goes out. However, the doomsday device is also extended to include many other types of fictional technology, one of the most famous of which is the Death Star, a space station that destroys the planet the size of a moon.
Different types of fictional apocalypse devices have also been activated as part of the AI ​​takeover. These include missile launching systems in the movie WarGames (1983), fully-submitted controls to computers, and human imminent destruction on Skynet at The Terminator (1984).
See also
- Escalation conflict
- Failed-off
- Global disaster risk
- Mutually confident of destruction
- Weapons of mass destruction
References
External links
- "The Return of the Doomsday?", Ron Rosenbaum, Slate.com , August 31, 2007
- The Doomsday device is displayed in the episode of The Bionic Woman Doomsday is Tomorrow
- Line 7 Two (Australia) - Secret of War , Series 1, Episode 19
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