Meaning of doomsday device | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hypothetical weapon (often a bomb) programmed to automatically be used in response to certain attacks, usually with very dire consequences (such as the annihilation of the world).
2. Alternative spelling of doomsday device.
   alt-of, alternative
3. An extremely powerful weapon.

Examples

“Near-synonyms: doomsday bomb, Dead Hand”

“For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device.”

“Of course, Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary, is calling for merging the S.E.C. with the easygoing Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in the financial equivalent of setting off a Doomsday Device.”

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