Dr. Strangelove, I presume

Dr. Strangelove, I presume

One of the prototypes of mad scientists and, what those people can do are Dr. Strangelove and his doomsday weapon were the symbols of the Cold War. Those things were introduced in the movie "Dr. Strangelove" in 1964, which was directed by Stanley Kubrick.

 The idea of the "doomsday machine" was not created by Stanley Kubrick himself, and during history, there have been told many stories about the more and less realistic "last insurance" or MAD (Mutual Associated Destruction) weapons, what would be launched, if somebody would not confirm, that the state has existed. The last one of those tales is the tale about STATUS-6, the giant submarine-sized 50 megatons nuclear torpedo, which would cause a horrible tsunami. 

Those submarines, which are loaded with one or two 50 megatons nuclear bombs are patrolling on the sea ready to strike immediately. The thing is that if the nuclear weapon would be detonated in the battery factory, that thing could cause extremely large-scale destruction. And there is a tale that every single battery factory on Earth is targeted the nuclear weapon. But the tales of the doomsday weapon start in the tale of Yamato the largest battleship of the Imperial Japanese navy. 

The myth of Yamato

In 1945 the super battleship Yamato went its final operation, to Kamikaze-attack against American ships near Okinawa. For that operation that giant battleship got fuel for a one-way trip, and the Japanese naval admirals even expect that she ever come back, because of the U.S superior at the sea and air. And in that thing caused rumors, what were luckily wrong, that there was hidden giant nuclear weapon hidden in that battleship. 

The weapon was described as the "Hiroshima bomb"-type of the "cannon device", what is installed in the ammunition storage, which was filled with lithium ampules. Today we know that this kind of system was the myth. 

And if there would be tonnes of lithium in that store, that means that if the fission bomb would launch in that store, the explosion would cause the destruction, what causes similar destruction with the meteorite, what caused the extinction of dinosaurs. In some other versions, the trucks or cargo-aircraft are loaded with lithium are the device, what is used in that kind of "final missions". 

The other myths

There have been introduced ideas about missiles, what would deliver radio-impulse, what launches all nuclear weapons in the same moment, and there is also an idea that somewhere inside some building is the system, where is a pump, what pulls the air out from vacuum chamber, and then the high-voltage capacitor will send the lightning through the electrolytic golden layer. This kind of system would cause an antimatter explosion, which would destroy the entire planet. 

But as you see that kind of rumors, what is causing destruction have been delivered accidentally and in purpose. There are tales about the nuclear-powered aircraft, what are cruising on the skies, and giant nuclear devices, what are orbiting the Earth, and what is ready to attack if the signal is ending. The truth is that the FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) is not extremely big. They might be the size of normal nuclear weapons, but they can be launched immediately against the target on the ground.