| 单词 | doomsday machine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdoomsday machine doomsday machine n. (also doomsday bomb) see quot. 1961. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > a particular species of weapon > destroying all life doomsday machine1960 1960 H. Kahn On Thermonuclear War x. 489 Technology, 1969..Doomsday Machines. 1960 H. Kahn On Thermonuclear War x. 500 The last two items in Table 65 are probably the most important, even if not very probable. Foremost are Doomsday Machines. I am not predicting that they will be built... It is most unlikely that either the Soviet Union or the U.S. would build such machines. 1961 New Scientist 26 Oct. 230/1 The Doomsday Machine is a hypothetical weapon which is capable of destroying all human life. 1965 B. Russell Autobiogr. (1969) III. iv. 211 Cobalt would be necessary for the Doomsday Bomb. 1968 Observer 31 Mar. 25/4 The idea of a nuclear ‘Doomsday machine’, capable of destroying all life on earth, is not technically absurd. 1970 A. Dipper Hard Trip xiv. 200 It is unutterably evil, and dangerous as a doomsday bomb. < as lemmas |
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