- We all face the prospect that, if Russia were ever attacked, its strategic nuclear warheads could be launched by a computer system designed and built in the late 1970s. http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand 3 comments science
- Dr. Strangelove is alive and well: Mertvaya Ruka (Dead Hand) - an automated Soviet system for launching a nuclear counter-strike - is still operational. http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand 268 comments technology
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