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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.
It is said that Russia built such a device called the ” Dead Hand” amidst all this. But what drove the soviet union to build the ultimate doomsday machine? What inspired President Ronald Reagan’s announcement?
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
How was it created? Russian Defense Ministry/Sputnik. A UR-100N (an intercontinental ballistic missile coded as SS-19 ‘Stiletto’ by NATO) was chosen as a basis for the new weapon. Especially for...
- Nikolai Litovkin
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...
