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FilmThe film Dr. Strangelove is a fairly literal satire of the Cold War. In it, the Soviet Ambassador, upon learning that the Americans could not recall a bomber set to deliver nuclear weapons inside the Soviet Union, informs the President that Soviet Premier Kissoff had ordered the creation of a doomsday device.[1] The film Doomsday Machine started in 1967 but not released until 1972 featured a Red Chinese doomsday device. In the film WarGames the United States' NORAD created a military supercomputer (WOPR) programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war, intended to eliminate the need for human intervention in missile silos. The conclusion of the movie Beneath the Planet of the Apes implied the detonation of salted bomb, marked with the Greek letters alpha and omega signifying the "beginning and end", Mutated humans had come to possess it and worshiped it as the weapon of their God. In the James Bond movie Moonraker, Sir Hugo Drax creates a doomsday device – a poison dispersed by satellites – to eradicate all human life on earth. Skynet in the Terminator films utilises the United States' stockpile of nuclear weapons in an attempt to end all human life on Earth in an act called Judgment Day. Throughout the Star Wars films, the antagonistic group called the Empire builds two massive spherical space stations, known as the Death Star, both of which are armed with a laser array mounted in the widely recognized concave structure on the upper left hemisphere which were both able to destroy a planet in only one shot. The only target annihilated was the Earth-like planet Alderaan, the home planet of Princess Leia. TelevisionIn The Bionic Woman, Jaime and a Soviet agent work together to defeat a computer that, ironically, would trigger World War III by a U.S. attack on the computer site. Jaime stops the radio jamming with barely enough time for the B-52 to receive the "abort" signal. In Quatermass and the Pit (1958), in part one a proposition is made by Colonel Breen to police the Earth with Nuclear weapons from an automated system on the Moon, should an aggressor nation wipe out the opponent nation with nuclear weapons they in turn would be destroyed by missiles from space, it was to be known as the dead man's deterrent. In Fringe, a large mechano-organic hybrid device has the ability to destroy universes. In the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine", a conical planet killer goes on a planet destroying rampage. Captain Kirk speculates that the machine was created as a doomsday device, and used, thus destroying its creators and then going on a random path of destruction. A mixed occult/biological form of "doomsday device" was being prepared by Demona for use in the final Gargoyles three-part story arc called "Hunter's Moon", meant to destroy all humanity, but preserve Goliath and the Manhattan Clan, as well as all other living gargates.[2][3] In Futurama, Professor Farnsworth is known to possess several doomsday devices. In the Simpsons episode "You Only Move Twice", Homer's new boss, Hank Scorpio, is a supervillain who, with Homer's help, develops a doomsday device, and threatens the UN Security Council unless they deliver an unspecified amount of gold within 72 hours. In Sonic SatAM, Dr. Ivo Robotnik made a doomsday device in the episode "The Doomsday Project". In Doctor Who there are numerous doomsday weapons. Particularly notable ones include the first appearance of one, the Time Destructor from The Daleks Master Plan, which works by accelerating or reversing the flow of time and is capable of devastating a planet, and the Hand of Omega, a stellar manipulator used by the early Time Lord Omega, which is capable of making a star go supernova. In the chapter about the Cuban missile crisis of the TV series Secrets of War, a Soviet proposal for a Doomsday Machine is described.[4] It would have consisted of a ship full of fissile material navigating the soviet waters, which would automatically detonate if it detected radiation levels associated with a nuclear attack on soviet territory. This was considered too risky for the Soviet leadership, hence the proposal was not accepted. BooksIn The 39 Clues: Cahills vs Vespers: Book Six: The Day of Doom, the villain, Damien Vesper, builds a "Machina Fini Mundi," or "Doomsday Device," which reverses the polarity of Earth.[5] Ender's Game features the Molecular Disruption Device (MD Device, "Doctor Device", or "Little Doctor"), which is capable of annihilating an entire planet in one strike. |
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