Soviet scientists had designed a device in the mid-1980s to retaliate against a nuclear attack in the U.S.
In Wired magazine, Nicholas Thompson writes about system known as Dead Hand. It was designed by Soviet scientists in the mid 1980s to automatically retaliate against a nuclear strike from the U.S.
Thompson’s new book on the cold war is The Hawk and the Dove.
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