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  2. Doomsday device - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Cobalt bomb - Wikipedia

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    A cobalt bomb is a type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive material, potentially for the purpose of radiological warfare, mutual assured destruction or as doomsday devices. There is no firm evidence that such a device has ever been ...

  4. Salted bomb - Wikipedia

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    In the dark comedy Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), a type of cobalt-salted bomb is employed, specifically utilizing a composite called 'Cobalt-Thorium G' with a Dead Hand mechanism, by the Soviet Union as a 'doomsday device' nuclear deterrent: if the system detects any nuclear attack, the doomsday ...

  5. Global catastrophe scenarios - Wikipedia

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    The scenarios that have been explored most frequently are nuclear warfare and doomsday devices. Mistakenly launching a nuclear attack in response to a false alarm is one possible scenario; this nearly happened during the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.

  6. Opinion: America failed to heed Stanley Kubrick’s warnings ...

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    The Soviet Union, for its part, has created a Doomsday device which will destroy the world if even one bomb falls on the country. Gripped by mutual fear and impelled by one rabid doofus, the world ...

  7. Category:Doomsday scenarios - Wikipedia

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    Doomsday scenarios are possible events that could cause human extinction or the destruction of all or most life on Earth (a "true" or "major" Armageddon scenario), or alternatively a "lesser" Armageddon scenario in which the cultural, technological, environmental or social world is so greatly altered it could be considered like a different world.

  8. USB Doomsday Device Hub: $39.99 at ThinkGeek! - AOL

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    Remember when you were a kid? If you were anything like me, you probably dreamed of the day when you would be doing big things, making huge decisions that affect millions of people, defusing bombs ...

  9. USB Doomsday Device Hub: $39.99 at ThinkGeek! - AOL

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    Their USB Doomsday Device Hub has four switches. Switches one and two are toggles, and switch three is a key; once you activate them, the red light goes on to tell you that the device is armed ...