cinnamon thoughts.

While in the US two weeks ago I had the chance to buy a print issue of Wired with the article Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine. Whether you believe everything or not doesn’t make this a less interesting read:

The point of the system […] was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. […] Dead Hand is continuously being upgraded.

Posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 19:22 by Daniel M. Gattermann. This Post is filed under Politics, Real Life, World. You can follow responses through the and view other blogs commenting on this post. You can also leave a response, or trackback from your own site.