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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 the fact that hydrogen bombs can be 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).
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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 alliteration 'doomsday device' has since become more popular.
History[edit]
Since the 1954 Castle Bravo 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 Leo Szilard conceived of a doomsday machine, a massive thermonuclear device surrounded by hundreds of tons of cobalt which, when detonated, would create massive amounts of Cobalt-60, rendering most of the Earth too radioactive to support life. RAND strategist Herman Kahn postulated that Soviet or US nuclear decision makers might choose to build a doomsday machine that would consist of a computer linked to a stockpile of hydrogen bombs, programmed to detonate them all and bathe the planet in nuclear fallout at the signal of an impending nuclear attack from another nation.[citation needed]
The 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 avoid the dangerous game of brinkmanship caused by the massive retaliation 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 Nth country triggering a doomsday machine, and states that he didn't advocate that the US acquire a doomsday machine.[2]
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The Dead Hand (or 'Perimeter') system built by the Soviet Union during the Cold War has been called a 'doomsday machine' due to its fail-deadly design and nuclear capabilities.[3][4]
In fiction[edit]
Doomsday devices started becoming more common in science fiction in the 1940s and 1950s, due to the invention of nuclear weapons and the constant fear of total destruction.[5] A well-known example is in the film Dr. Strangelove (1964), where the Dead Hand is triggered by an incompletely aborted American attack and all life on Earth is extinguished.[5] Another is in the Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine (1967), where the crew of the Enterprise 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 Death Star, a moon-sized planet-destroying space station.[5]
Various types of fictional doomsday devices have also been activated as part of an AI takeover.[6] This includes the missile launch system in the movie WarGames (1983), control of which has been handed entirely to a computer, and Skynet's nigh-destruction of the human race in The Terminator (1984).[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Harper, Douglas. 'doomsday'. Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^Kahn, Herman (1960). On Thermonuclear War. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press.
- ^'Dr. Strangelove's 'Doomsday Machine': It's Real'. NPR.org. NPR.
- ^'Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine'. Wired.com. 2009-09-21.
- ^ abcHamilton, John. 'Doomsday Devices'. Weapons of Science Fiction. New York: ABDO Digital. p. 14. ISBN1617843636. OCLC1003840589.
- ^ abPilkington, Ace G.; Brin, David. 'Doomsday Machine'. Science Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas. Jefferson, North Carolina. p. 69. ISBN1476629552. OCLC973481576.
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- Doomsday device featured in The Bionic Woman episode Doomsday is Tomorrow
| Doomsday Machine | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Herbert J. Leder Harry Hope Lee Sholem |
| Produced by | Harry Hope |
| Written by | Stuart J. Byrne |
| Starring | Denny Miller Ruta Lee Grant Williams Mala Powers Henry Wilcoxon Bobby Van |
| Cinematography | Stanley Cortez |
| Distributed by | Cine-Find |
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| 83 minutes | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $700 000[citation needed] |
Doomsday Machine, also known as Escape from Planet Earth (video title), is an Americanscience fiction film filmed in 1967 but completed without the original cast or sets in 1972.[1]
The Doomsday Machine
Plot[edit]
A spy (Essie Lin Chia) discovers that the Chinese government has created a doomsday device (the 'key' to which, 'only Chairman Mao has') capable of destroying the Earth and it will be activated in 72 hours. Soon after, Astra – a two-year return mission to Venus by the United States Space Program – has its time of launch speeded up and half of the male flight crew are replaced by women shortly before take-off, including one Russian. Shortly before blastoff military alerts are put into effect.
After leaving Earth, the seven crew members of Astra deduce that they have been put together to restart the human race should the Chinese activate their device. Shortly after this, the device goes off and Earth is destroyed.
As Astra continues to Venus, the crew realizes that a safe landing on Venus is impossible unless the crew is reduced to three. One of the crew members tries to rape another, at which point she accidentally gets them both blown out of an airlock.
Two more crew-members—Danny and Major Bronski—are lost as they head out to repair a fault with the spaceship. However, they notice another spacecraft nearby and jump to it. The second craft proves to be a lost Soviet ship that disappeared piloted by a close friend of the Russian crew member. Though its pilot is dead, Danny and Bronski successfully power up the Soviet ship. Before the two ships can rendezvous, contact with Astra is lost.
A disembodied voice cuts in, claiming to be the collective consciousness of the Venusian population. The voice informs the survivors (whom the Venusians refer to as the 'Last of Man') in the Russian ship that Astra no longer exists (presumably destroyed somehow by the telepathic Venusians), and that no humans (due to their 'self-destructive' potential) will be allowed to reach Venus. It gives a cryptic message regarding the prospect of starting new life in a 'very strange and very great' place, somewhere far 'beyond the rim of the universe,' before the ship suddenly blasts off, apparently by the power of the Venusians, and the movie abruptly concludes.
Cast[edit]
- Bobby Van as Danny
- Ruta Lee as Dr. Marion Turner
- Mala Powers as Maj. Georgianna Bronski
- James Craig as Dr. Haines
- Grant Williams as Maj. Kurt Mason
- Henry Wilcoxon as Dr. Christopher Perry
- Essie Lin Chia as Girl Spy
- Casey Kasem as Mission Control Officer
- Lorri Scott as Lt. Katie Carlson
- Denny Miller as Col. Don Price
- Mike Farrell as 1st Reporter
Production[edit]
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Production of Doomsday Machine began in 1967 under Herbert J. Leder's direction[2] under the titles Armageddon 1975 and Doomsday Plus Seven. Production stopped on the film before it was completed (presumably due to funding problems), but the rights to the film were eventually purchased and completed in 1972, albeit without the original cast members, costumes or sets.
Sloppy production standards have made the film a favorite for buffs of bad cinema. The film relies extensively on stock footage, including real (but badly degraded) NASA rocket footage, special effects shots from David L. Hewitt's The Wizard of Mars (1965) (Hewitt receives a special effects credit for Doomsday Machine), Gorath (1962) and other disparate sources, leading to numerous, glaring continuity errors. Among such persistent mistakes is the external appearance of the Astra, which inexplicably changes throughout the film. The painfully protracted last segment of the movie – with an American and Russian astronaut boarding a derelict Soviet spacecraft – was obviously shot after the unfinished principal photography without the participation of the original actors. After this point, the characters stay in their spacesuits, which look different from those shown in the immediately preceding scenes, and their helmets are now opaque, concealing the doubles' faces. The characters speak, but in completely different voices than before, the Russian no longer even having an accent. The slow, repetitive pacing of this sequence is also markedly different from the rest of the film and suggests an effort to pad the film's running time out in order to reach a desired length.
Reception[edit]
The film has an audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes of 7%, based on 187 votes. Bill Gibron of PopMatters called it an 'MST3K Season 4 level challenge.[citation needed] At one point during the Cinematic Titanic take on the film, Frank Conniff states exasperatedly that this experience is like 'watching someone else watching Manos: The Hands of Fate'.[citation needed]
In popular culture[edit]
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- The film was the second film riffed in the Cinematic Titanic series.
- This film was reviewed by the Nostalgia Critic on Best of TGWTG Volume 3.
References[edit]
- ^contact@hkcinemagic.com (2007-03-02). 'HKcinemamagic.com'. Hkcinemagic.com. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
- ^'Stanley Cortez'. Cinematographers.nl. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
External links[edit]
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