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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 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 · 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.
- Blake Stilwell
If the US had attacked, the Soviets would have used its Doomsday device, “Perimeter.” some called this Mertvaya Ruka “Dead Hand.” Russia’s Dead Hand system is A system that will launch a nuclear strike automatically. This system is likely to be operational even today.
Mar 1, 2010 · The "dead hand" of the title was something akin to the Doomsday Machine dreamt up by the nuclear strategist Herman Kahn, in this case a device that would automatically launch missiles against the United States in the event that the Soviet leadership was taken out by a U.S. attack -- a scenario that was actively feared during the fevered early ...
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Reflecting on the legacy of the Dead Hand system raises an important question for today’s global security environment: Should the United States consider developing a similar doomsday mechanism?
