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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 ...
Sep 21, 2009 · The system may no longer be a central element of Russian strategy—US-based Russian arms expert Pavel Podvig calls it now "just another cog in the machine"—but Dead Hand is still armed.
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 ...
- Nikolai Litovkin
Mar 9, 2022 · Called "Dead Hand" in the West, the theory is that a command and control system measures communications on military frequencies, radiation levels, air pressure, heat and...
- Blake Stilwell
This article describes the story about the use of the monolyth message BRONTOZAUR (БРОНТОЗАВР) and the origins of the Dead Hand (also called the Perimeter) system and its possible connections between the Buzzer and other radio networks.
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.
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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...