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Soviet Doomsday Device Still Armed and Ready - Using 1970's Computer

blog.wired.com — The Soviet doomsday device - a giant cobalt bomb rigged to explode were Russia ever nuked, rendering the earth's surface uninhabitable - gained fictional fame in Dr. Strangelove. However, P.D. Smith's Doomsday Men, available in the UK and due for stateside publication in December, tells the story of the real Doomsday device - and it's still armed.

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  • TritonX, on 10/10/2007, -38/+139Obviously not conceived by microsoft, otherwise it wouldn't still be operating.
    • gwolf, on 10/10/2007, -22/+7If it's running MS Dos and not a MAC or modern Windows O.S. we should be all right; for a while anyway.
    • Ryosen, on 10/10/2007, -2/+87I wouldn't worry about it anyway. It probably thinks it's 1907.
    • halavais, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24Cobalt Screen of Death?
    • wush, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2you forgot "amirite?"
    • Jalh, on 10/10/2007, -7/+0lmao
    • gn0stik, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3It's running on an apple 2c and john locke is pressing the button. Lost trifecta in play?
    • sotopheavy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I was just about to say: I actually feel a little safer knowing it was made before windows came out.
    • cbuddha42, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Amazingly enough it can be turned off. That's right kids; it's not active all the time. The closest we have ever been to Russia blowing us all the ***** up was thanks to their standing LOW orders, not this system.

      Not that the system is a good idea, basically if it loses contact with all its monitoring nodes it shoots a bunch of missiles. It would take a blackout slightly larger than the NY one a few years ago and the failure of emergency power or communication systems in order to accidentally trigger this event. If this did happen and the perimeter system was active at the time, then we would probably all die. However, the idea of this system is actually to reduce Russian relaiance on LOW. Basically the idea is if Russia thinks they are about to be nuked they can activate this system there by reducing their need to retaliate before they are hit and all die (it will continue to function and shoot missiles even after they all die). However, Russian LOW time is still 15 minutes which basically means decision in 10, and the furthest into that we've been in 8 minutes in 1995 (2 minutes from Yeltsin being asked to push the button in his cheget).

      Oh, this system used to be named dead hand, but it was banned by a treaty, so the Russians renamed it Perimeter.
      • vicious1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Accidents like those can be easily prevented with a standalone power source.
        • BHSPitMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Let's hope they invested in a UPS, then.
  • angusm, on 10/10/2007, -12/+188Gives a new meaning to the term "Blue Screen of Death".
    • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -10/+28It's probably red over there... Being Communists and all.
      • DROWE859, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Red would equate to good things. Similar to how red means go on Chinese stoplights.
        • lime148, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12That's just cause they're commies, too.
    • MarkTaiwan, on 10/10/2007, -10/+1what about "blue screen of mass-destruction"?
    • starkes, on 10/10/2007, -9/+5it has nothing to do with microsoft. and it has nothing to do with blue.
      it gives new meaning to nothing.
      • mrurc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0You're right. It has nothing to do with blue... except that it is made of cobalt, which is the main component of the pigment cobalt blue. The comment was actually pretty clever, but only if you get the joke. If you are wondering why you are getting dugg down, it's cause you're clueless.
    • masterspy7, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Just enter in 4 8 15 16 23 42 every once in a while and it should be ok...
    • cys006, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Maybe "Cobalt Screen of Death"?
  • RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -4/+249Shall we play a game?
    • creep303, on 10/10/2007, -40/+10Dugg for the Wargames reference.
      • knobidy, on 10/16/2007, -28/+6You don't need to state the obvious. Also, if you didn't get the reference, we don't need your kind here.
        • rarson, on 10/16/2007, -10/+12Wow, what an elitist prick!
          • thecompkid, on 10/16/2007, -10/+2Sounds like someone didn't get the reference.
    • NeoCortex, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13How about a nice game of chess?
      • verse101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Nah, how about global thermonuclear warfare instead.
    • DASK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This is no game. Would you like to see projected kill ratios?
  • haentz, on 10/10/2007, -21/+57No problem. No MS Windows in the 70s...
  • MarvinGalaxy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+38I want one.
  • Skanadian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+187You're supposed to tell the enemy that you have a doomsday device.
    • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -7/+21For those unfortunate enough never to have seen Dr. Strangelove, that was the big question posed after the Russian official explained the device.
      ... It's also the obvious thing that one does after developing a weapon like that, unless you have crazy "Islamic" neighbors who would set it off just to "kill the infidels".
      • mrFREEZE, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3ANOTHER reference spelled out. Thanks for ruining the joke.
  • Krumm, on 10/10/2007, -17/+125Giant bombs aside, I'm happier that the trigger is a 70's era PC than a modern machine.
    Old computers did what you told them and were simple enough to fault find with a bit of patience and a multimeter.
    Fast forward to now, and you have no frigging idea what's going on in the background with MS at the wheel:
    http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201806263
    • hmmdar, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6one big proplem of computers in that era, vacuum tubes. They were prone to failiur and could be very unstable if not maintained right.
      • contrex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Vacuum tubes were much earlier than the 1970s!
    • NeMoD, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3Oh my god Microsoft Update updated it's Updated Utility to provide better fixes!
      You got them red handed! *****
    • cosinezero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Military grade "computers" are a world apart from your average desktop computer.

      And we've come a LONG way in testing and QA for hardware and software. I'd take a modern military computer over a cold war era device, any day.
    • LeeMaple, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yeah, I don't really see what the problem is, computer systems of that era run a great many things in todays world, the airline system is at least that old.
  • Monkeybrains, on 10/10/2007, -2/+39Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!
  • Nigran, on 10/10/2007, -3/+45Lets just hope it isn't "Perimetr 2.0 beta" in flashy web 2.0 colors.
  • Tjalve, on 10/10/2007, -1/+40More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_bomb
    Why would anyone build anything like that ?!?
    • purdueAl, on 10/10/2007, -3/+44Why would anyone build atomic weapons?
      • bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4your comment should be the highest rated in the entire thread..
      • bioskope, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1...For Great Justice, Move ZIG!
    • unorginalityftw, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7It's a deterrent in the form of a threat, though that very sentence and line of thinking is problematic because when people are threatened they tend to react badly, which ultimately ends up in some sort of arms race and maybe someone getting just pissed enough to end it all. Now because of this I'd like for all nukes and weapons of mass destruction to be destroyed. But the technology is now out there, so even if you did do it someone will say "Hey, they don't have it, let's build one and demand *****." And then we just have a repeat. Where we are right now we can only hope to keep a precarious balance on the edge of all too possible extinction.
      • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Demand ***** like....

        ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS?
        • RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Or even 100 billion dollars for smaller, non-shouting values of 100 billion.
    • parasitewasp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Because we can.
  • MagCynic, on 10/10/2007, -42/+4I can't wait to hear how the media will spin this to be Bush's fault.
    • gquaglia, on 10/10/2007, -25/+7The media, how about this ***** board. Everything is Bush's fault here.
    • purdueAl, on 10/10/2007, -6/+20You mean the corporate media? Who share the same profit motive as the Bush administration? Please remove your head from your ass.
      • MagCynic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Do you even watch the news? Most news stories are slanted against the war and the president.
  • attiladahunda, on 10/10/2007, -2/+126Good thing it passed the Y2K test.
    • redfox2600, on 10/10/2007, -12/+10It actually didn't we're all dead and this is the afterlife. Don't you remember?
  • dukrous, on 10/10/2007, -20/+1410 comments and no Lost references yet?
  • lutschdran, on 10/10/2007, -8/+58So what, just enter the numbers every 108 minutes and all will be good
    • Dotmeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Just be sure not to enter 77 when the Dr. asks you.
  • mistermoose, on 10/10/2007, -1/+35But would it get rid of cockroaches?
    • RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -3/+71Nah. Fox News will be around for YEARS.
      • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+28Fox would probably make up news to ignore the nuclear fallout.
      • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -21/+1Fox would probably make up news to ignore the nuclear fallout.
    • fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7No. The only remaining inhabitants of the earth would be three cockroaches and Keith Richards.
  • 3leggedHorse, on 10/10/2007, -14/+2 That is some cool vodka fueled device it's the *****.
  • DJS2005, on 10/10/2007, -4/+60Although I find the idea of a 70`s computer possibly controlling our fate terrifying , I find it even more scary when a country misplaces a few nukes. It seems hypocritical to me how two countries (Russia and the US) can try to deny other countries nuclear research when they can`t seem to control their own ...*****.
    • Zeuser, on 10/10/2007, -6/+23Seems hypocritical to me when the U.S. bangs on about how Iran and Korea will use nukes against civilians when the U.S. is the only nation in history to have actually nukes against civilians... TWICE!
      • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -15/+10Yes and ended a pre-existing war, against an enemy who was prepared to sacrifice every last man woman and child, where millions more would have died. You notice we never used them again.
        • sat0shi, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4Dugg down for the common misconception that "every last woman and child" in Japan were willing to sacrifice their lives for a war they had nothing to do with. Watch the movie "Hadashi no Gen" please. Stop being so ignorant and spouting off what your history teacher in high school told you to justify the use of nuclear weapons on a civilian populace.
          • olsonea, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Right. Because Japan was operating from the moral highground (Rape of Nanking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre ). And, BTW, the death tolls were about the same, if not more during the Rape of Nanking alone.
          • reddfox321, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3And the US was operating from the moral highground?
          • sabach, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Judging by the stories you dig I'll guess you're Japanese. I used to have a Japanese friend who's mother was a child in Japan during the war, the Imperial Army repeated over and over to the populace that America would enslave them and pretty much turn Japan into a gulag. She remembers firmly believing that was true and then being surprised the American soldiers were so kind. She ended up marrying one.

            The truth of the matter is that one of the biggest reasons Truman authorized using the bombs was to end the war in time to prevent a Russian invasion, it was painfully obvious they'd FUBAR Japan. Finally, failing to use the best weapons you have available on strategic military and commercial targets just because there are civilians around is a losing strategy.
          • Lavarock, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2If the U.S. Government convinced me, true or not, that an invading country was going to burn me and every other american alive at the stake then I'd take every man, woman and child with me to try to stop them. I mean, as far as I know they're going to die anyway if we lose so why not arm them and give them a chance?

            Also, ***** your "women and children" *****. We should be beyond the notion that killing women is worse than killing men.
          • NozE8, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1"why not arm them and give them a chance?"

            I believe thats what the Russians did in WWII to prevent the Germans from taking over. (until their reinforcements arrived)
        • Myonosken, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5Try reading up on History. The US had won already.
      • Lavarock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Seems insane to me to allow a bunch of crazy ***** who don't care about Mutually Assured Destruction because they don't care about their own people, to own the most powerful weapons ever concieved by man.

        The U.S. lasted almost half a century staring down Russia with enough nukes to blow everything up ten times over, I think we've proven our responsibility. So has Russia, even.
        • sp0rk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I don't think you can "prove" responsibility when the people that make the decision aren't a static group.
    • Zap2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5its not controlling our fate...it needs a human to activate it!
    • willynilly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3First, it's a '70s computer, not 70's computer.

      Second, there's nothing inherently scary about technology from the '70s. Where do you think your cherished Unix heritage comes from? Even consumer-level computers from the era could be pretty damned good. The Atari 8-bit computers, for example, exhibited forward-thinking design that seems almost incredible today.
    • parasitewasp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Every country on the planet should have one...right Zeuser
    • alexkorova, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3"Although I find the idea of a 70`s computer possibly controlling our fate terrifying"

      You don't need to, that computer is probably very very good at doing exactly what it is supposed. It is a lot simpler than modern computers, yes, but that is what makes it so good. The people who designed it could understand every single piece of it, and how they worked in a much easier way than a modern computer.
    • rouslan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Seems that most people here might be good at playing video games on the latest overclocked CPU, but never have done any electronic engineering. Older CPUs are virtually impossible to crash, simple to program (reducing the chance of a bug), and there's no point in having a more powerful one, since it just performs basic functions.
      • ZippyV, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Aaah, the good old days. Everything just kept working: cars, tv's, radio's, light bulbs, ...
    • calebh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0You call controlling the fate of humanity "simple"
  • 3leggedHorse, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11 Warning self-destruct activated please make your way to the escape pods and await further instruction. What we need is a top ten of self-destruct vocals from films. The Enterprise self-destruct is cool, but my fav is the panther charges in The Sphere. Lost computer is quite cool too.
    • ChayD, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1"Alert!Alert! PANTHER...explosives...are...now...activated. Mark...thirteen...minutes...and...counting..." gotta love those computerised announcements (just like being at a train station)
    • TwilightKing, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11"This ship will self-destruct in twenty seconds. This is your last chance to press the cancellation button."
      "Cancellation button?! Hurry!"
      "Where is it, where is it, it's gotta be here..."
      "Out of Order?!"
      "*****! Even in the future nothing works!"
      "10, 9, 8, 6--"
      "6?! What happened to 7?!"
      "Just kidding: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, have a nice day!"
      "THANK YOU."
  • 3leggedHorse, on 10/10/2007, -18/+2 ***** check this artical out on why civilizations self-destruct.
    http://www.askrealjesus.com/R_CHRISTHOOD/MAITREYA/Powerelite5.html
    • bioskope, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1if Jesus had checked his lag while playing MP with the Romans and not had to wait 3 days to re-spawn we would all have been saved
  • deadeyes, on 10/10/2007, -14/+5just like in Lost :)
    • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"*****! We need another plot device to drag out this show more. Otherwise it'll be Doomsday for us."
      "How about a Doomsday Device, like in Dr. Strangelove?"
      "You, sir, are a genius."

      Does anyone actually still think Lost is well written, instead of incredibly convoluted? They're just making it up as they go along now.
    • cptn_cardboard, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Sir, you're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
  • austin63, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Who would have thought the system would have a catchy Web2.0 lack of vowels.
  • neogreat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9"'Does it still work?' Of course it still works! It's a Plotskey!"
  • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Gives you that real comfy feeling eh? Especially with all the politics surrounding Russia lately.
  • illu45, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Is it just me, or was the reference to Dawkins' book entirely unnecessary?
    • bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Yeah it seemed like a bit of a non sequitur, but I guess it brings up a valid point.

      blind faith in science is still blind faith (and at that point ceases to be science)
  • dupswapdrop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Bring it on we need to blow some of the slime off this rock anyway!
  • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+55"Perimetr"

    Hmm... typo or secret origin of Web 2.0 naming? You decide.
    • caribou16, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8More like 8 character naming limitation.
    • willynilly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4perimetr.com is taken.
    • 5plic3r, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1The Russians came up with an ENGLISH codename???!!!
    • rouslan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It's not web 2.0 or character limitation, it's Russian language-the spelling in Russian does not have an e. For example, the name Piotr.
  • DeflatorMouse, on 10/10/2007, -14/+5So it uses 1970s technology, so what? The space shuttle uses 70s computers as well, and it's got an unsurpassed record of safety and stability!
    • DJS2005, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8They get updated very often actually. I suppose the mechanics might be but not the computer hardware. It`s like 747s , they get gutted and filled with better equipment because it`s cheaper then redesigning.
    • Chrysalid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13The Voyager probes are still returning data from their flight computers, and they've been running for 30 years as well.
    • bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2my computer crashes so frequently that I wouldn't be willing to rig ANY warheads to any technological triggers....
    • parasitewasp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I seem to remember a few fatal incidents regarding the space shuttle...so maybe a bad comparison
  • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7But I do say no more then ten to twenty million killed, tops. Depending on the breaks.
  • LuckyLefty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
  • sriel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7What would happen if a meteorite falls on Russian territory? False input... death to all humanity.
    • RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Nope. Skynet is much smarter than that. Oh, wait.....
    • Smartkidz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That would so suck. We'd be killed like the dinosaurs just with a catch. That catch is that we all suffer more.
    • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11And we'd deserve it.

      "We'll just set up this machine that can destroy the entire world. Don't worry, it's perfectly safe!"

      Same thing people say about nukes. How the ***** is a WEAPON perfectly safe? Isn't it supposed to be unsafe by design?

      Humanity is ***** INSANE.
      • bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1yeap yeap...

        so what's the solution? Humanitarian Industrial Complex?
    • Zap2, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2read the ***** article!

      It need human aprroval...plus the top Sovet leaders could still be contacted
    • rouslan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Zap2 is correct-the computer is functioning as an AND gate which has 3 inputs: Nuclear explosion detection, communication link disruption in the Kremlin, and final human activation which takes place in a bunker underground, possibly similar to this: http://englishrussia.com/?p=1435
      But what I agree with is that it might malfunction, since ICs back from the Soviet days were all reverse-engineered, unstable (in hardware), had many bugs, impossible to get, and expensive. And of course I believe it is a crazy idea to make something like this.
  • bobbilljoe, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2What the *****... :-|
    Doesn't take much to set this off ... loss of contact with Kremlin and and big impacts... wtf does it have a sesmogram ?
    could an earthquake set this stupid machine off ?
    wtf can't beleive someone would build something like this
    • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11They didn't know if the Atomic Bombs were going to ignite the atmosphere and vapourize the planet or not, but they did it anyways.

      Weapons designers tend to be insane from the get go. Engineering death takes a certain level of dehumanization.
    • rouslan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What do you expect, it's made by Russians during the Cold War. Human lives are worth nothing even in present-day Russia.
      • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1How many foreigners does it take to add up to one 9/11 victim again? How about soldiers?

        I forget what the exchange rate is on Americans.
  • SomeguyUK, on 10/16/2007, -2/+74Roses are red, Violets are Blue, in Soviet Russia, Poem writes you
  • protogenxl, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14MEIN FÜHRER!

    I CAN WALK!!!
  • rrife, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2If it's not broken, don't fix it.
    • bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7or.. if it's not broken.. dismantle it and sign international treaties...

      the truth never sounds as good in a soundbyte....
  • motherboards, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Rrife i am with you on that If it's not broken, don't fix it. Warning
  • Comp1demon, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2SO basicly this system relays on those Men turning their little Brass Key's Perhaps they should just take the men "out of the loop".

    I hear there is a Retired Computer named W.O.P.P.R that can replace them that way if the Main Computer has the answers of "yes" and "yes" they don't have to rely on a guy with a conscience for not launch thinking it was another simulation or just can't handle the responcibility know what he is doing.

    This is all a joke - anyone know what im quoting? "cause that what this article seems to remind me of"
    • wildthing202200, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Shall we play a game?
    • bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2well thats how corruption, genocide etc works... powerful men take others "out of the loop"

      Those committing the atrocities are often ignorant of the situation. It would be easy to fool a naive young soldier into thinking russia was under attack and he held the key to their salvation....

      dismantle this crime against humanity.
  • Goosemaster, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Pssft..and all the programmers say Cobalt is dead...
  • isayre020888, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7So is there any plan of dismantling this thing or are they just gonna keep it running? Because if not, I'm gonna wanna be the guy riding the nuke that sets that thing off.
    • parasitewasp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1imagine if they cannot disarm it and the have to maintain it so it doesn't go off....kind of like lost
      • isayre020888, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Ah, I've never seen Lost. I hear good things though.
  • MattBD, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6As long as it isn't running Vista, I'm happy. Windows Genuine Advantage would probably fail to certify it and it'd warn you that it'll nuke the world unless you cough up.
  • KDX200rider, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3This is a strong reminder that fanaticism isn't always based on religion.
  • transform100, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1For one theres no way that a 70s bomb like this could take the whole world lol
    • willynilly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The "lol" at the end really boosts your credibility. Especially since you can't even spell LOL.

      LMAOAAFM!
    • rouslan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yes it could!
      Don't compare computer hardware over a 37 year period with the development of nuclear weapons. Plus to make your argument even more flawed, the bomb was finalized in 1985, and the article mentions that only the computer hardware controlling it was developed in the 1970s. Read the article and have common sense before posting *****.
  • Majin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5we must safeguard our precious bodily fluids
  • xSEED, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1prolly powered by an early woz and jobs computer
  • drjekelmrhyde, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Some show said that the Soviets were trying to build a entire supertanker that was a world ending H bomb
    • TheLoneHoot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Sorry but, "Some show said that..." doesn't really help you in the credibility department.
  • cfuse, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2The day that the US gives up all it's nukes is the day I start to even think about taking the OMG, THE COMMIES STILL HAVE THE BOMB! stories seriously. We live in a ***** up world where Putin is still the safer choice rather than Bush.
    • Zap2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3they both suck...no need to pick 2 crappy leader
    • parasitewasp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What a stupid thing to say. Both of these world leaders are on their way out.
  • thatsiebguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Not surprising considering Putin still travels with a (much more sophisticated) "Football" same as Bush.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Football
  • BuckFoston, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What, no LOLcat replies? Dr. Strangelove and Wargames were covered...
  • raymore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12We are all going to die.
  • Herostratus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Geez, I just watched Wargames again last week. Brought back memories of the cold war era I grew up in. This story just highlights them... and sends a chill down my spine.
  • bonlebon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1There are no balls nor intentions in this world to use/activate such "Doomsday" devices.

    first: they are most bark than bite, sure they can send a city to next week but won't cause the whole human race on earth to disappear.

    second: IF they use a device like that, well it will be like throwing good food to the garbage, with the wiping of a good country, they'll wipe good sources of food and water too.

    third: there has been multiple opportunities to use them in the past (after Hiro and Naga), yet here we are.

    Don't buy this FUD, have good laugh though, and while you are at it, go and watch Dr. Strangelove.
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