How to design a Doomsday Device (tm) ?????

It has been postulated to be the cause of Spontaneous Human Combustion.

"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be a giant earth-shattering kaboom. Oh drat!"

As sure as I am that anything I cut-n-paste from the web is in any way correct.

And back to the subject at hand...

Ay, ain't search engines wunnerful? ;-)

As posted above:

Hmm, a web search of "Illudium Q36" gives (among others):

So I'll have to stick to my "As sure as I am that anything I cut-n- paste from the web is in any way correct." statement. Perhaps I should have added, "which is not very". ;-)

Whatever, it sounds far more effective than Ex-Lax.

I believe you can find that information in the book "Chuck Amuck"..

OK, I'll give you the Illudium, but it still sounds like Q-36. ;-)

Destroy is such a variable word.

I think a complete resurfacing is probably possible with current technology.

You'll need to set up a plant to make some nuclear warheads. A million megaton yield ones should just about do.

Now, launch these towards Ceres, and detonate each one at the appropriate point, one every 30 seconds for a year.

I suspect the cheapest way would be to do a couple of Jupiter flybys to put it onto an earth impacting orbit.

Smacking Ceres into earth at some 15Km/s or so should liberate on the order of 1000000000000000 megatons.

Actual "blow the earth into little bits" is going to be harder.