Construct which could destroy all life on a planet or a planet itself
For the professional wrestling move, see Doomsday device (wrestling).
Many hypothetical doomsday devices are based on salted hydrogen bombs creating large amounts of nuclear fallout.
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. Most hypothetical constructions rely on hydrogen bombs being made arbitrarily large, assuming there are no concerns about delivering them to a target (see Teller–Ulam design) or that they can be "salted" with materials designed to create long-lasting and hazardous fallout (e.g., a cobalt bomb).
Doomsday devices and the nuclear holocaust they bring about have been present in literature and art especially in the 20th century, when advances in science and technology made world destruction (or at least the eradication of all human life) a credible scenario. Many classics in the genre of science fiction take up the theme in this respect. The term "doomsday machine" itself is attested from 1960,[1] but the alliterative "doomsday device" has since become the more popular phrase.
A doomsdaydevice is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth,...
Doomsdaydevices, when used in fiction, are capable of destroying anything from a civilization to an entire universe, and may be used for the purpose of...
difference between a 'semi-automatic' doomsdaydevice and the totally automatic—beyond human control—doomsdaydevice." David E. Hoffman wrote on the semi-automatic...
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the...
radiological warfare, mutual assured destruction or as doomsdaydevices. There is no firm evidence that such a device has ever been built or tested. The concept of...
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wrestling world. They also introduced a tandem maneuver known as the DoomsdayDevice. Both men used the move as a team finisher throughout their careers...
disambiguate the two worlds. Much of the season was designed around a doomsdaydevice, as they believed its mysteriousness was "a great story engine for...
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by the Soviet Union as a 'doomsdaydevice' nuclear deterrent: if the system detects any nuclear attack, the doomsdaydevice will be automatically unleashed...
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extinction? Physicist Leo Szilard warned in the 1950s that a deliberate doomsdaydevice could be constructed by surrounding powerful hydrogen bombs with a...
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Godwinn suffered a cracked C7 vertebra when the Legion of Doom botched a DoomsdayDevice. Henry was told to take at least 15 weeks off to fully recover from...
desired),: 192–193 [better source needed] potentially to the level of a "doomsdaydevice." However, usually such weapons were not more than a dozen megatons...
deliver an unspecified amount of gold or face the consequences via a doomsdaydevice. He promptly blows up the 59th Street Bridge as a show of truth. Homer...
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