Anybody ever hear of Russia's "Dooms Day Ship" that was considered to check the American nuclear threat?

Question

In the early stages of the cold war. 1950's or 1960's the Soviet Union developed, but never built, a doomsday machine. It was a large ship to be anchored in one of the seas that they controlled. The ship was to contain enough atomic material to destroy all life on earth. It would do this by splattering the radiation into the atmosphere. It was to be set off automatically if enough radiation was detected in a select group of cities in the Soviet Union. It could not be turned off and there was to be no human control once it was built. Their rationale for it was that if they could not live as Communist/socialist then the Capitalist also would not live to enslave them. All life would be destroyed. I am sure that a little searching would turn up several references to the ship design.

The reason that this is possible has to do with the way a fission-fusion-fission bomb works. As you may know, a fusion bomb is triggered by a small fission bomb, known as the primary. This device provides the high temperature necessary to cause fusion in the secondary. Some bomb designs (this is from open literature sources) incorporate a final stage in which uranium is used to cause additional fission energy release. A description of this may be found in Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes. In his book, Rhodes notes that there is no practical limit to the amount of final stage uranium which can be added to this design. If a very large amount of uranium is used, the bomb size can be enormous.

Answer 1

That was Star Wars not Russia
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Answer 2

Not heard.