Russia's Doomsday Machine May Still Be Operational


	Russia's Doomsday Machine May Still Be Operational

lakotahope

10-8-2009 2:45 PM

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doomsday machine, russia, nuclear first strike

lakotahope says:

Pretty wild information here in this article...never heard it all before.....

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It's supposed to be the stuff of science fiction: A device that triggers a <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2802009&page=1#">nuclear holocaust</A> in the event of a U.S. strike against Russia.
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But the "Dr. Strangelove"-esque technology isn't just fantasy. The <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7987015" linkindex="46">Cold War-era</A> Soviet "doomsday machine" was -- and might still be -- very much a reality.
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From interviews with former Soviet arms officials and Defense Department documents, Nicholas Thompson, a senior editor for <A target="external" href="http://www.wired.com" linkindex="47">Wired magazine</A> and author of <A target="external" href="http://thehawkandthedove.nickthompson.com/" linkindex="48">"The Hawk and The Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War,"</A> learned that the system was built 25 years ago to ensure a nuclear retaliation if Russia were attacked by the U.S.
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The top-secret Russian program, he continued, virtually guaranteed the ability to strike back, even if the entire chain of command had been wiped out.
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