Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

Wired by Nicholas Thompson | Sep. 21, 2009 (Special Report)

"The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and the military." He looks around again.

Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford ... Full Story »

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Topics: Nuclear Weapons, Russia, War
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Sep 22, 2009 - 10:34 AM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 23, 2009

A well written story on a system of critical importance that I was unaware existed.

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