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The US and its doomsday device's theoretical ability to deter a nuclear attack is that it would go off automatically without human aid and despite human intervention. Kahn conceded that some planners might see "doomsday machines" as providing a highly credible threat that would dissuade attackers and
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thermonuclear weapon test demonstrated the feasibility of making arbitrarily large nuclear devices which could cover vast areas with radioactive fallout by rendering anything around them intensely radioactive, nuclear weapons theorists such as
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fights a powerful planet-killing alien machine. However, doomsday devices also expanded to encompass many other types of fictional technology, one of the most famous of which is the
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concept which governed US-Soviet nuclear relations in the mid-1950s. However, in his discussion of doomsday machines, Kahn raises the problem of a nuclear-armed
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conceived of a doomsday machine, a massive thermonuclear device surrounded by hundreds of tons of cobalt which, when detonated, would create massive amounts of
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is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly
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made world destruction (or at least the eradication of all human life) a credible scenario. Many classics in the genre of
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postulated that Soviet or US nuclear decision makers might choose to build a doomsday machine that would consist of a
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triggering a doomsday machine, and states that he didn't advocate that the US acquire a doomsday machine.
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they bring about have been present in literature and art especially in the 20th century, when advances in
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take up the theme in this respect. The term "doomsday machine" itself is attested from 1960, but the
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Some works have also considered the erroneous activation of doomsday devices by external factors or
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being made arbitrarily large, assuming there are no concerns about delivering them to a target (see
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linked to a stockpile of hydrogen bombs, programmed to detonate them all and bathe the planet in
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Doomsday devices started becoming more common in science fiction in the
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Construct which could destroy all life on a planet or a planet itself
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Pilkington, Ace G.; Brin, David (2017-03-05). "Doomsday Machine".
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at the signal of an impending nuclear attack from another nation.
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Self-indication assumption doomsday argument rebuttal
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Hamilton, John (15 August 2006). "Doomsday Devices".
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Doomsday device (wrestling)

salted
hydrogen bombs
nuclear fallout
Earth
doomsday
hydrogen bombs
Teller–Ulam design
salted
cobalt bomb
nuclear holocaust
science
technology
science fiction
alliterative
Castle Bravo
Leo Szilard
Cobalt-60
RAND
Herman Kahn
computer
nuclear fallout
brinkmanship
massive retaliation
Nth country
Dead Hand
Soviet Union
Cold War
fail-deadly

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