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Dr. Strangelove is a parodic fantasy, of course, based upon the real world Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. But according to a fantastic article in this month’s Wired, Stanley Kubrick and Dr. Strangelove were right: the Soviet Union not only had a Doomsday Device during the closing days of the Cold War… it still has it.
According to Wired, the device was completed as a response to Ronald Reagan’s proposed Star Wars system of satellite defense. Since orbiting satellites would be powerless to mop up thousands of incoming missiles, the Star Wars platform indicated, instead, an intention of pre-emptive attack. The Soviet’s Doomsday Device, then, would automatically launch nukes at America if it determined, through a complicated algorithm of computed if/then statements that a nuke had struck Soviet soil.
Lets not forget the doomsday bomb project the Russians were supposed to have which would destroy the entire planet if Russia was ever destroyed.
originally posted by: WeRpeons
Why do we allow the few to threaten the majority of humanity? The majority of people on this planet just want to live in peace. Yet people support our leaders when they threated to wipe out a population of innocent civilians. It's like little boys thumping their chests trying to show who's bigger and stronger.
Humanity really needs to get beyond the primitive concept of war. The world we live in is in one hell of a mess. To think in this day and age, leaders who still think they can launch a nuclear attack without receiving any kind of devastating nuclear response, are either ignorant or have their head so far up their rear end they can't see the light of day.
They may think they're safe in their bunkers, but who would want to live in the aftermath of such destruction and nuclear fall out?
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
The Soviet’s Doomsday Device, then, would automatically launch nukes at America if it determined, through a complicated algorithm of computed if/then statements that a nuke had struck Soviet soil.
originally posted by: Vector99
Doesn't Russia's number stations have something tied to this? I've heard if any of the numbers stations were to lose broadcast from Moscow, it would be assumed nuclear war was imminent/present and all nukes would be fired. Can't remember where I read that though.
Nuclear won't kill the human race. A virus may though.
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...a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs.)
originally posted by: yuppa
OP there is a counter to the dead hand though. a ground level EMP missile with nuclear bunker busters in the100 kt range. Totally Obliterating the facility will cut the head off that system. Although the russians are trying to count on not being hit with a decapitation strike. SOmeone has to turn the war off right?
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
originally posted by: yuppa
OP there is a counter to the dead hand though. a ground level EMP missile with nuclear bunker busters in the100 kt range. Totally Obliterating the facility will cut the head off that system. Although the russians are trying to count on not being hit with a decapitation strike. SOmeone has to turn the war off right?
No the thing would be EMP shielded and there is more than one facility its a network. There was another doomsday device to destroy the whole world, literaly the whole world in a single massive explosion that would dwarf the tzar bomb, the super bomb IVAN, which was supposed to be at sea, I dont see why they wouldnt have that one too if they have the other one online.
The point of a doomsday device is you cant turn it off and it destroys life forever, like activating skynet to take out humanity if your side loses the war.