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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. To ...
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
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?
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 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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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...
