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   Dead Hand, also known as Perimeter (Russian: Система «Периметр», romanized: Sistema "Perimetr", lit. '"Perimeter" System', with the GRAU Index 15E601, Cyrillic: 15Э601), [1] is a Cold War –era automatic or semi-automatic nuclear weapons control system (similar in concept to the American AN/DRC-8 Emergency Rocket ...

2. www.wired.com › 2009 › 09Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine | WIRED

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   Sep 21, 2009 · The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret.

3. www.military.com › history › russias-dead-handRussia's 'Dead Hand' Is a Soviet-Built Nuclear Doomsday Device

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   Mar 9, 2022 · Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has put Russia's nuclear weapons on high alert, he might have taken Russia's doomsday device on notice as well.

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4. medium.com › illumination › dead-hand-russiasDead Hand: Russia’s Doomsday Machine and Its ... - Medium

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   The Dead Hand system was premised on the belief that no first strike could be so overwhelming as to prevent the Soviet Union from responding with a catastrophic second strike.

5. www.rbth.com › science-and-tech › 334565-dead-hand-5Dead Hand: 5 questions about the SCARIEST Russian nuclear ...

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   The ‘Perimeter’ system, dubbed in the United States and Europe the ‘Dead Hand’, is an automatic control system for a retaliation nuclear strike. To put it simply, if Russia’s territory ...

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6. www.linkedin.com › pulse › understanding-dead-handUnderstanding "The Dead Hand": Russia's Nuclear Doomsday Device

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   Aug 31, 2024 · The idea behind Dead Hand was to prevent the Soviet Union from being "decapitated" in a first strike. If the leadership of the country were to be killed, the system would...

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   Is Russia's 'dead hand' a Soviet-built nuclear doomsday device?

   • "Командующий РВСН генерал-лейтенант Сергей Каракаев: "Владимир Владимирович был прав - мы можем уничтожить США быстрее чем за полчаса" ". Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 February 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2015. ^ Stilwell, Blake. "Russia's 'Dead Hand' Is a Soviet-Built Nuclear Doomsday Device". Military.

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   Was perimeter a doomsday device?

   • Prior to 1985, he says, the Soviets designed several automatic systems that could launch counterattacks without any human involvement whatsoever. But all these devices were rejected by the high command. Perimeter, he points out, was never a truly autonomous doomsday device.

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   What was the purpose of the Dead Hand system?

   • The purpose of the Dead Hand system, as described in the book of the same name, [ 8 ][ 9 ] was to maintain a second-strike capability, by ensuring that the destruction of the Soviet leadership would not have prevented the Soviet military from releasing its weapons. [ 2 ]

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   Does the world need to know about dead hand?

   • But Yarynich takes the risk. He believes the world needs to know about Dead Hand. Because, after all, it is still in place. The system that Yarynich helped build came online in 1985, after some of the most dangerous years of the Cold War. Throughout the '70s, the USSR had steadily narrowed the long US lead in nuclear firepower.

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   What is a dead hand retaliation system?

   • This system is called the ‘Dead Hand’. But how does it work? What is the ‘Dead Hand’? The ‘Perimeter’ system, dubbed in the United States and Europe the ‘Dead Hand’, is an automatic control system for a retaliation nuclear strike.

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   When was a doomsday machine invented?

   • The first mention of a doomsday machine, according to P. D. Smith, author of Doomsday Men, was on an NBC radio broadcast in February 1950, when the atomic scientist Leo Szilard described a hypothetical system of hydrogen bombs that could cover the world in radioactive dust and end all human life. "Who would want to kill everybody on earth?"

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8. sofrep.com › news › fact-checking-the-cold-war-eraThe Soviet Doomsday Machine Theory - SOFREP

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   Sep 17, 2023 · At the heart of the Soviet doomsday machine concept is the notion of “dead hand.” It was an automatic response mechanism that would launch a retaliatory nuclear strike even if national...