Dead Hand: Inside Russia’s Doomsday Machine | Documentary
In the long, tense years of the Cold War, nations across the globe built up their arsenals, and some Soviet developers began to investigate the possibility of automated or semi-automated systems that would ensure that attacks could still move forward — even if a devastating first blow had been dealt by the U.S. Thus was born the Perimeter system, more ominously known as Dead Hand.
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Cold War roots | 0:00
Fail me deadly | 2:26
Disaster prevention | 3:40
Detecting strikes | 4:51
Semi-automatic system | 5:49
A hidden command post | 7:06
From Russia with love | 8:23
Shrouded in secrecy | 9:44
Similar systems worldwide | 10:51
Voiceover By: Tim Bensch
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