The Doomsday Device and Mutually Assured Destruction
Автор: Winston With A Y
Загружено: 2021-10-28
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The Doomsday Device is a theoretical nuclear dead man's switch which will detonate a country's entire nuclear arsenal if it detects a nuclear detonation from an adversary power. Though it was popularised by the film Dr. Strangelove directed by Stanley Kubrick, the idea was posed originally by Leo Szilard in a 1950 radio program, and later in greater detail in writing by Herman Kahn in 1960. This video examines the theoretical foundations of the Doomsday Device, its links to the theory of mutually assured destruction and its practical implementation in the Soviet Union's 'Perimeter' or 'Dead Hand' system.
Sources:
Herman Kahn - On Thermonuclear War
NPR - Dr. Strangelove's 'Doomsday Machine': It's Real (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...)
Nicholas Thompson - Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
Eric Schlosser - Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True
Ron Rosenbaum - The Return of the Doomsday Machine?
Footage from Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film; 'Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' was also used in this video. I do not claim to own the rights to any of the footage used.
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