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Posted: 4/20/2016 7:52:13 PM EDT
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They'd and we'd be fools not to have something like that.
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Posted: 4/20/2016 7:53:31 PM EDT
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Was it made? Almost definitely.
Now the question is how does some whack job get their sticky fingers on it so the movie starts? |
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Posted: 4/20/2016 7:54:32 PM EDT
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I think its called the stranger
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Posted: 4/20/2016 7:57:32 PM EDT
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if I recall, there was a rocket launch in Sweden or someplace - weather research, That almost triggered an automatic nuclear launch by the Russians.
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Posted: 4/20/2016 7:57:40 PM EDT
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BIGGER_HAMMER 
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Posted: 4/20/2016 8:01:06 PM EDT
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This idea is not a practical deterrent. |
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Posted: 4/20/2016 8:01:35 PM EDT
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I think its called the stranger 
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Posted: 4/20/2016 8:02:40 PM EDT
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Just a random thought, it's been rumored that the Soviets built some kind of a nuclear dead mans switch called "dead hand" or "perimeter" that in the event of a nuclear attack would automatically launch all of the Soviet's nukes. It is also rumored that the thing still works, think there is any truth to it? Think we ever built anything simular that would automatically broadcast the launch codes in the event of a decapitation strike taking out the entire National Command Authority? YES, we did build the ERCS... Basically a Minuteman Missle without a Nuclear Payload but instead a UHF repeater that could broadcast in Low Space the orders to Launch to the US Nuclear Forces... LINK to ERCS BIGGER_HAMMER
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Posted: 4/20/2016 9:44:52 PM EDT
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YES, we did build the ERCS... Basically a Minuteman Missle without a Nuclear Payload but instead a UHF repeater that could broadcast in Low Space the orders to Launch to the US Nuclear Forces... LINK to ERCS BIGGER_HAMMER Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Just a random thought, it's been rumored that the Soviets built some kind of a nuclear dead mans switch called "dead hand" or "perimeter" that in the event of a nuclear attack would automatically launch all of the Soviet's nukes. It is also rumored that the thing still works, think there is any truth to it? Think we ever built anything simular that would automatically broadcast the launch codes in the event of a decapitation strike taking out the entire National Command Authority? YES, we did build the ERCS... Basically a Minuteman Missle without a Nuclear Payload but instead a UHF repeater that could broadcast in Low Space the orders to Launch to the US Nuclear Forces... LINK to ERCS BIGGER_HAMMER Not to mention PACS, Looking Glass, Night Watch, Alternate National Military Command Center and the Swanny birds. |
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Posted: 4/20/2016 10:00:13 PM EDT
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Weren't half of their ICBMs fake or defective? Makes you wonder if this dead hand thing would even work?
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Posted: 4/20/2016 10:04:33 PM EDT
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It absolutely does exist!
Don't tell anyone, but.... If my Wife sneaks a fart out at night while I'm sleeping, I LAUNCH !!!!! NOW THATS A DETERRENT BUDDY!!! She does not fart around THIS GUY! Does not break that peace treaty, no Sir!!! |
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Posted: 4/20/2016 10:11:58 PM EDT
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)#Current_use
In 2011, the commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, Sergey Karakaev, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, confirmed the operational state of the Perimeter assessment and communication system.[17] The "combat readiness" of this system was again confirmed in November 2015 by the Rossiiskaya Gazeta, as reported by the BBC.[citation needed] |
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Posted: 4/20/2016 10:14:12 PM EDT
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If you're going to build a deadman's switch like that you must be absolutely sure that the other side *knows* you have it, otherwise it is worthless.
I don't think they ever had such a thing. Besides, given the reliability of Soviet technology, if they did have it, it would have surely blown us all to hell by now. |
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