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Dead Hand, also known as Perimeter (Russian: Система «Периметр», romanized: Sistema "Perimetr", lit. '"Perimeter" System', with the GRAU Index 15E601, Cyrillic: 15Э601), [1] is a Cold War–era automatic or semi-automatic nuclear weapons control system (similar in concept to the American AN/DRC-8 Emergency Rocket Communications System) that was constructed by the Soviet Union ...
A particular example is the Soviet (now Russian) Dead Hand system, which has been described as a semi-automatic "version of Dr. Strangelove's Doomsday Machine" which, once activated, can launch a second strike without human intervention. The purpose of the Dead Hand system is to ensure a second strike even if Russia were to suffer a ...
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy is a 2009 book written by David E. Hoffman, a Washington Post contributing editor. It was the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction .
Dead Hand was a Soviet weapons-control system during the Cold War. Dead Hand or Dead hand may also refer to: The Dead Hand, 2009 book by David E. Hoffman; Dead Hand, or Mortmain, the perpetual, inalienable ownership of real estate; The "Dead Hand" series, books by Upton Sinclair starting with The Profits of Religion
Fail-deadly operation is an example of second-strike strategy, in that aggressors are discouraged from attempting a first strike attack. Under fail-deadly nuclear deterrence, policies and procedures controlling the retaliatory strike authorize launch even if the existing command and control structure has already been neutralized by a first strike.
In the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language of Vladimir Dahl, the name Kashchei is derived from the verb "kastit" – to harm, to dirty: "probably from the word "kastit", but remade into koshchei, from 'bone', meaning a man exhausted by excessive thinness".
Rescue mission in Ukraine city Pokrovsk after strike by Russian missiles kills seven Ukraine-Russia war – live: Putin’s troops ‘targeted rescue workers’ in deadly ‘double-tap’ attack ...
Vladimir P. Demikhov was born on July 31, 1916, [4] into a family of Russian peasants living on a small farmstead in the northern part of Russia's Volgograd region. [5] His father, Peter Yakovlevich Demikhov was killed during the Russian Civil War when Demikhov was about three years old, [1] [5] so he and his brother and sister were raised by their mother, Domnika Alexandrovna, who managed to ...