They are a serious form of radioactive contamination and nuclear fallout.Īlso called thermonuclear weapon, hydrogen bomb, H-bombs. The amount of energy released by fission bombs can range from about 1 ton to over 500 kilotons of TNT. This first generation nuke uses fissile material, usually enriched uranium or plutonium. Nuclear non-proliferation treaties have to be signed by Type 0 civilizations in order to prevent MAD (mutually assured destruction) in a futile nuclear war.Īlso called atom bomb, atomic bomb, A-bomb. Nuclear devices are weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or doomsday devices and can devastate entire cities by blast, fire, and radiation. A few 1000 gigatons would be enough to kill all humans. Potential gigaton yield devices are "doomsday bombs." One detonated about 16 kilometers up would start fires over an area of more than 700,000 square kilometers. Its weight to energy yield ratio is more than 1:1000. Nuclear bombs have had yields between 10 tons and 50 megatons of TNT. Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.
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At least, renting the movie was good.A nuclear weapon (or nuke, nuclear warhead, nuclear bomb) is an explosive device that uses nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb). The russians seem to have been interested in a retaliatory strike using their forces, rather than using a new device. The Strangelove machine was a big gigaton Cobalt-thorium bomb. My fallout comment was due to the fact that when you mentioned that Dr Strangelove meets reality, I thought you meant that the "dead hand" was a device like the "Strangelovian machine". The device may still exist under the name Perimetr" "The Soviet Union built the world's only doomsday device, known originally as the "dead hand." The Russian dead hand is designed to launch the bulk of the country's nuclear forces in the event of a decapitating strike, utilizing specially designed rockets carrying radio equipment. Perimeter does have automatic response and apparently has a "dead hand" effect since it would be used if a decapitating strike occurs and eliminates the Russian top command: Sorry for the confusion, I should have been more specific. But was a big lon-lasting fallout device produced? The "dead hand" needed an automated response, not necessarily a strangelove machine.Perimeter can cause an automatic retaliation strike. Kosvinsky restores Russia's confidence in its ability to carry out a retaliatory strike" But the Moscow-area radio nodes have grown vulnerable over the past 20 years.
It features hard radio nodes near Moscow that can use remote control to launch communications rockets, which in turn can launch virtually the entire Russian missile force without human intervention. "This doomsday apparatus,is an amazing feat of creative engineering. That seems to be the mission of perimeter: The document asked to create a "fully automated retaliatory strike system" from the top levels of command that could be activated in times of crisis. I think that the russians never intended to build a "Strangelove-type fallout machine", though. So we will never know, had that system been built, would the Soviet leadership have waited till a Party Congress to make the announcement? The Soviet Union never built this automatic Doomsday Machine (also known as Dead Hand) - the Perimeter communication system that is often mistaken for it is something quite different. Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret! The true Strangelovian moment comes at the end of the sentence quoted above - the author adds, in parenthesis (with a notification to the adversary).
This is exactly a Doomsday Machine that he is describing. The author, Oleg Belyakov, head of the Military Industry Department of the Central Committee, complains, among other things, that No attention has been paid to a proposal, extremely important from the military and political point of view, to create a fully automated retaliatory strike system that would be activated from the top command levels in a moment of a crisis Here is a copy of an internal Central Committee document from 1985, which discusses various ways to increase effectiveness of the Soviet strategic forces. Strangelove was a required movie-watching experience for Soviet military planners, but they got the point (we should thank Stanley Kubrick for making it so well in the movie). As you know, the Premier loves surprises. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?Īmbassador de Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. Strangelove and the Russian ambassador: Dr. Strangelove movie would certainly remember this exchange between Dr.
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