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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 20:43:55 +0100
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:24:17 -0700
wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:

> You want scary? It's not fictional. In 1985 the Soviet Union activated 
> what they called the "Perimeter System" aka "Dead Hand", which once 
> activated would look for signs of a nuclear strike on the "homeland", 
> and if the algorithm decided they had been attacked, would launch every 
> icbm in the arsenal, all pre-targeted. Still operational under the 
> Russian Federation.

	AT least it would attempt to - I read at the time that when the cold
war ended and a lot of weapons were decomissioned with witnesses a good
many of them would have failed to either launch or go off.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope