The Damocles, a unique starship found in the computer game Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, is armed with "Cobalt Thorium G" torpedoes.Adventure Comics #250 published by DC Comics featured Superboy deputized to track down a criminal from the future seeking materials to make an outlawed cobalt bomb.The original The Bionic Woman had a two part episode entitled "Doomsday is Tomorrow" where a doomsday device was created by a person who was credited as being the "father of the cobalt bomb.".
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The movie City of Fear (released Feb, 1959).The Marvel comic character Cobalt Man (created April, 1967) uses a nuclear powered exoskeleton.In A Taste of Armageddon, a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, a minor character refers to the use of "tri-cobalt devices" as the primary weapons of both sides in an interplanetary war.The final voice-over in the film indicates that it was successful, as does the next film in the series, Escape from the Planet of the Apes. The film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, the first sequel to the film Planet of the Apes, includes a group of oddly mutated humans living in an underground city within the ruins of the New York Subway system that worship an Alpha-Omega bomb, a nuclear weapon with a cobalt casing that is capable of causing a chain reaction that would (supposedly) incinerate the entire Earth's atmosphere.Perhaps following the Strangelove reference, the movie Goldfinger (first released September 1964) features a Chinese "atomic device" which is "small, but particularly dirty." James Bond surmises that this device uses "cobalt and iodine" to irradiate the gold at Fort Knox for "57 years" (Goldfinger corrects him to 58 years).Strangelove (released Jan, 29, 1964) by Stanley Kubrick describes the Soviet Union building a cobalt/thorium-G bomb. On the Beach by Nevil Shute is one of the best known of the fictional stories dealing with cobalt bombs.The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy describes wrapping the bomb on the plane in a cobalt jacket to poison the enemy's landscape.Inspired by Szilárd's warnings, science fiction authors have occasionally made cobalt bombs the doomsday weapons in their works: The 60Co would have decayed to stable, and thus harmless, 60Ni. After fifteen to twenty years, the 60Co radiation would decrease by a factor of eight to sixteen, presumably making the area habitable again. What is unusual about this type of bomb is that the half-life is long enough to settle out before significant decay has occurred, and to make it impractical to wait out in shelters, yet is short enough that intense radiation is produced. The sheer size and cost of such a weapon makes it unlikely to be built, although it is technically possible because there is no maximum size limit for a thermonuclear bomb. Even so, critics of the cobalt bomb concept point out that the mass needed would still be unreasonably large: 1 gram of 60Co per square kilometer of Earth's surface is 510 tonnes. Smaller amounts of 60Co would take longer to kill, but would be effective over a large area.
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A prompt, full body dose of approximately three to four grays would kill 50% of the population in thirty days, and could be accumulated in just a few minutes of exposure to a gram of 60Co. Held at close range, this amount of cobalt-60 would irradiate a person with approximately 0.5 gray of ionizing radiation per minute.
One gram of 60Co contains approximately fifty curies (1.85 terabecquerels) of radioactivity. The fallout would have a half-life of 5.27 years and would be intensely radioactive, a combination which caused Szilárd to suggest that such bombs could wipe out all life on the planet. Weapon of global destruction See also: Doomsday device
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