Its a Doomsday Device World

the idea is simpel

your build a weapon, which could destroy all life on the Earth.
and used it to defend your self
"Try to attack me, Its shall destroy the world"
look like a wacky Sci-fi Idea from Dr Strangelove...

But Its a REAL idea by strategist Herman Kahn and risk analyst Ian Harold Brown from RAND corp !
a computer with sensors linked to a stockpile of dirty H-bombs.
if the computer recognizes a Nuclear Attack, it detonate the H-bombs
and Radioaktiv Fallout and Nuclear winter do the rest

lucky for us the U.S. or Soviets never bulid one of these

But wat If ?
how looks a Cold War with Doomsday Devices ?
like no Cuba missile Crisis but a "Doomsday Surprise" in 1962

how to maintenance and how they are defused them after Cold War ?
the Device operate fully automatically and has a Fail Safe against defuse !


Real Doomsday proposals
USAF proposed the use of ground launch Orion (the Nuclear Puls Engine)
Payload a 1500 metric Tons heavy H-bomb, that would be 1-2 giga ton TNT :eek:

PLUTO / SLAM can be also consider as Doomsday weapon
It a nucklear power Ramjet Cruise missle with 20 H-bomb
after the mission, they flights for months in Soviet airspace producing radioaktive fallout

The Soviet Union had plans for the World largest Kobalt Bomb
build inside a Cargo ship means a bomb of weight of 10000 metric Tons !

building such big H-bomb is no problem, so long they is fuel, the Fusion reactions goes on.
 
building such big H-bomb is no problem, so long they is fuel, the Fusion reactions goes on.

You cannot scale up an H-bomb linearly. You have to hold the fuel together until the reaction front reaches the outer parts of the load. From a certain explosion power there is simply no construction that can withstand the explosion pressure for the necessary milliseconds.

Beyond those 100 MT (Tsar-Bomba) you need enormous additional amounts of thermonuclear fuel to get small increases in yield.
 

CalBear

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You don't need to get an ultra massive single weapon, although there is no theoretical limit on the size of a Fusion weapon, it is more effort than it is worth.

All you need is a total of 50 metric tons of Cobalt 59 as jackets on, or salted into a number of weapons that airburst ( the most common assumption is 50MT weapons, although 25MT or even smaller weapons would serve nicely in much greater numbers). Ideally, to speed the spread of the Cobalt 60 that would result from such an event, you would have detonations across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres set off in a pattern taking advantage of weather and wind cycles. This would not be absolutely necessary, since the atmosphere throughly mixes over several years, but it would be most efficient. Given the 5+ year half-life of Cobalt 60 and the amazing amount of gamma it releases even after 25 years, that would be more than enough to kill everything save a few bacteria across the Planet, including sealife.

Zinc is a alternate, although it is less long lived and you have to do a lot of extra work to get the right isotope to use in the jackets. If you just want to wipe out a smaller area, say North America or Africa, and be able to take the region over, you can also use Gold. With a jacket of Au-197 (which is the 100% natural occurring version of Gold) you will get a resulting Au-198 isotope that is an even more efficent of a gamma emitter, although at the cost of a very short half-life of just over two days. Good news is that, in the VERY long run, you will eventually be able to recover much the Au-197 once it settles and is washed into streams as dust.
 
If you just want to wipe out a smaller area, say North America or Africa, and be able to take the region over, you can also use Gold. With a jacket of Au-197 (which is the 100% natural occurring version of Gold) you will get a resulting Au-198 isotope that is an even more efficent of a gamma emitter, although at the cost of a very short half-life of just over two days. Good news is that, in the VERY long run, you will eventually be able to recover much the Au-197 once it settles and is washed into streams as dust.

That would be an excellent theme for a remake of Goldfinger!!!

On a more serious note, after a few weeks you can take over the area without resistance - but you can hardly use it to settle there as the entire ecosystem is wiped out. You would have to pretty much terraform the area, to import and seed out everything down to earth bacteria.
 
why ceep it a secret ! why why ? :D

so the Soviet and U.S. Doomsday Weapon are cluster of H-bomb

the soviet plans were chanceld by Khrushchev
because he din't trusted automatic systems of the Device
he preferred more
"Persons (military) who be supervised by persons (KGB),
who are supervised by persons (Politburo)

although a "Temporaly" Doomsday weapon had be solution for Khrushchev
problem with U.S. ICBM (instead the Soviet installed MRBM on Cuba )

back to Dr Strangelove who say "even a littel country can have a Doomsday Weapon".

like French or Germany because they much cheaper as a Nucklear Strike force
with Bombs and "Delivery systems" (like ICBM, Supersonic Bombers , Sub etc.)

intersting Idea, Germany with a Doomsday Device
 
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