The Soviet ambassador describes the Doomsday Machine as an array of 100-megaton bombs covered with a special fallout-inducing material. A few years before the movie's release the Soviets produced a working 100-megaton bomb design (the "Tsar Bomba") but scaled it back to 50 megatons before testing. If the full-scale bomb were tested, it would have increased the global radioactive fallout from all nuclear detonations to that point in history by 25%. Interestingly, by removing the fallout-producing uranium third stage, the scaled-back test had the lowest fallout per kiloton of explosive power.
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