Project Babylon in Fiction
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
- This project provides the backstory for Frederick Forsyth's novel The Fist of God.
- The events of Project Babylon are dramatized in the 1994 HBO movie Doomsday Gun starring Frank Langella as Gerald Bull, with Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, and Clive Owen in supporting roles.
- A fictive attempt to resurrect the project forms the plot of the Golgo 13 story The Gun at Am-Shara.
- SAS novel n°100 Les canons de Bagdad of Gérard de Villiers is based on the end of Project Babylon and the assassination of Gerald Bull.
- The weapon is the basis for a mission in the video game Conflict: Desert Storm II.
- The weapon is the main plot detail in The Punisher vol. 2 comic book issue #47 published in April 1991, monikered as the Brattle Gun. The gun is named after the fictional creator of the gun Morris Brattle who worked for the government of Zukistan build a supergun in the war against their neigbour Trafia.
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