Doomsday Studies

"Doomsday Studies" examines several topics that represent a potential threat to the future of humanity and related issues. The tone and approach is cold and factual throughout. The topics are analyzed from multiple directions, including scientific, technological, economic, political, military, historical, psychological and biological points of view. Besides established facts being presented, many topics are given original analysis, with sometimes surprising conclusions. - Chemical and Biological Weapons: The types of weapons are identified, history of use is covered, the pattern of use vs. non-use is analyzed, and the future outlook is examined. - The Nuclear Bomb: The basics of nuclear energy are presented, the features of construction of different types of nuclear bombs are described, the dynamics leading to the construction and use of the nuclear bomb are analyzed, ways of individual survival in the face of nuclear attack are described, the history of nuclear weapons through the arms race and beyond is covered, and future trends are explored. - Climate Change: The nature of the greenhouse effect and cause of global warming/climate change is presented, the state of the climate and international cooperation is explored, a case of an earlier bout of global warming is applied to the present situation, the probability of success in the struggle against climate change is analyzed, and new methods of combating climate change are presented and analyzed. - Asteroid Strike: The dynamics of asteroid strikes on Earth are presented, the history of asteroid strikes is covered, and methods of preventing future asteroid strikes are analyzed. - Radioactivity: The basics of radioactivity are presented, the effects on the human body are described, the history of radioactivity incidents is covered, and an attempt is made to reach a perspective on the threat of radioactivity. - Artificial Intelligence: The state of artificial intelligence is described, the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence are weighed and the possibilities of human and machine co-existence are analyzed. - Alien Visit: The dangers and benefits involved in a visit by space aliens are analyzed, comparisons are made to incidents from human history, and methods of responding to an approach by aliens are explored. - Conclusions: Numerical probabilities are attached to the different topics in terms of the threats posed to the future of humanity. Aliens Atmosphere Aum Shinrikyo Autonomous war robot B-29 Bari incident Barringer crater alpha radiation beta radiation Bhopal Bikini test Binding energy Black death Blade Runner Bolide Broken Arrow Cancer Carbon Castle BravoCell Death Chain reaction Chelyabinsk Chernobyl Chicxulub Chlorine CO2 Coal Cretaceous paleogene Critical mass Curie Darwin The Day After Demon Core Dirty Bomb Divide and Conquer Dr. Strangelove Drone Duck and Cover Dune Ecosystem Einstein Electric Vehicle Emission Enrichment Evolution Fallujah Fat Man Fermi's paradox Firestorm Fossil fuel Fukushima Game theory Gamma radiation Geiger counter Geneva convention Protocol Global Warming Gulf stream Gulf war syndrome Half-life Hawking Heisenberg Hitler Hydrogen bomb thermonuclear Industrialization Ionizing radiation Iridium Isotope Jonestown Kingsman Kyoto Kyshtym Little Boy Little Green Men Litvinenko Machine learning Mars Attacks Martians Kiloton Megaton MIRV Mushroom cloud Mutually Assured Destruction Napalm Nazis neutron NORAD Reactor waste Ocean acidification Oil Oppenheimer Permian Triassic Plutonium Potsdam Prisoners' dilemma Radium girls Reagan Sagan Sarin SETI Sex robot Shocked quartz Shockwave Skynet Spaceship Stalin Star Trek Star Wars Stuxnet Submarine Surveillance TNT Tsar Bomba Tunguska Turing Uncanny Valley Unit 731 Uranium WMD White phosphorus X-Files X-rays Yellow vest Zyklon-B Mustard gas nerve gas World War 1 Novichok Anthrax World War 2 Fission Fusion Manhattan Project Hiroshima Nagasaki Cuban Missile Crisis