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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.
Now, the Soviets had once thought about creating a fully automatic system. Sort of a machine, a doomsday machine, that would launch without any human action at all. When they drew that blueprint up and looked at it, they thought, you know, this is absolutely crazy. [22]
Sep 26, 2009 · RAZ: It was a system designed to unleash global nuclear Armageddon if Russia were attacked. Now, in 1964, that concept was a movie fantasy. What few knew until recently is that in 1984, the Soviet...
Apr 11, 2017 · Instead of a doomsday device, Dead Hand really functions more like a strange sort of world-destroying white noise machine, calming down the reactionary people who have the ability to...
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.
Aug 31, 2007 · As a result, some referred to it as the “dead hand” doomsday device. It is Dr. Strangelove himself, the madman U.S. nuclear strategist played by Peter Sellers, who detects the flaw in this...
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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...
