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On 9/5/24 19:05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:40:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
> 
>> druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote at 20:33 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>
>>> Our Trident nuclear subs check to see if civilisation still exists by
>>> tuning in to Radio 4 long wave, if they don't hear anything, they
>>> launch!
>>
>> That is slightly scary.
> 
> Can’t decide if that is less dumb or dumber than the Doomsday Machine in
> “Dr Strangelove” ...
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.