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Russians sure like their Doomsdays
QuestionMarkMan
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So Wired has a great article on Russia's Doomsday system.
It was built 25 years ago and was designed to obliterate the US no matter what happened to the USSR—and it still works today.
The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn't matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, and killed everyone with stars on their shoulders. Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched.
The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret.
The scary thing is that Perimeter still works today. At least according to Valery Yarynich, a former Soviet colonel now 72 years old. Yarynich should know, though: He worked 30 years at the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff helping to build it.
Now, when Perimeter is activated, it sends up these babies.
This is an SS-17 ICBM master missile, which are launched first. Once they are in the skies, they activate the launch for all the Russian nukes.
That includes every single nuclear weapon, every one of the Russian Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles in ground silos, nuclear submarines, and heavy bombers around the world. Scary stuff indeed.
But fear not, fellow humans, because the Perimeter system is not completely automatic. The actual red button is apparently activated by a soldier hidden in some underground bunker.
But wait, say Russia does launch all their nukes at us, or wait let's say they launch at the entire planet. Could they kill us all?
Conclusion: WE NEED MORE NUKES, NOT FEWER. Better die instantly than having to survive nuclear winter.
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Sure, Rural Kentucky lives... but that really isn't humanity.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
The only way to defeat the system is to have it play Tic-Tac-Toe.
But I don't wanna love the bomb!
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Says you, living in fucktown arizona in the middle of goddam nowhere. My apartment will be the first place to go. If there's a nuclear war, I'll be dead so fast that in the barren, charred wasteland you will be breathing me in as you struggle to survive. Because I'm basically dust.
this does not frighten me.
"Think of it as Evolution in Action"
but instead of deciding all human life must be eradicated, it'll just hook up to the internet and become a porn addict.
I'm a few hundred miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, so I don't get hit by hurricanes and won't have to worry about sea level rise. There are no major fault lines anywhere near my city. My city is of modest size, and has no strategic importance, so it probably wouldn't be nuked.
I'm also more than a thousand miles away from Yellowstone National Park, just in case that fucker ever goes off.
If the Yellowstone Super caldera blows, being on North America means you'll probably be dead.
He just means that if it does go, because he's a thousand miles away he has a few minutes warning and time to do one last thing of importance before he dies.
I'm guessing masturbation.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8274903.stm
You really don't need that many nukes for Wales.
Its the only way to be sure...
That is fantastic.
Dammit my nuclear-powered bionic arms are more than suitable for child-hugging
You bigot
Arizona?
What?
Man you could hug the crap out kids with nuclear bionic arms.
what I'm saying is that kids these days break too easily.
You try and hug them and they just die or become crippled
fuckin' kids.
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For more info check out this terribly designed website
Of course at current rates it would take 2 trillion years and cost $62.5 quadrillion to produce such a device, and that's assuming a sudden breakthrough that gives us perfectly efficient storage, but it’s a threat to us all
not so
Colonels (I believe) had the authorization to launch nukes without any other authorization
That's scary
I should keep it on my MP3 player in case the worst should happen.
Die in a fire for even mentioning that name
AM has been a staple of science-fiction since forever
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
You have killed the thread, or at best condemned it to chaos
Happy?
Use crazy physics to blow stuf up!