The Doomsady Machine Lives! Newslink

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

There is a machine in Russia to End The World. Automatically.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113242681

Remember the end of the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove, where the entire world is blown up by a Soviet doomsday device? The Soviets really did have a doomsday device, and Wired magazine senior editor Nicholas Thompson tells host Guy Raz that the operation, dubbed “Perimeter,” is still working.

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Mr. NICHOLAS THOMPSON (Author, “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the history of the Cold War”): If there’s a crisis, somebody in the Defense Ministries has to turn it on, so that’s the first step. It then tries to find evidence that there’s been a nuclear hit on the Soviet Union. If it determines that there has been a hit, then it tries to communicate back to the Defense Ministries. And if it can talk to them, it says, okay, humans are still alive. I don’t need to work. I’ll shut off.

But if it can’t communicate with them, then it knows there’s been a crisis. We’ve been hit by a nuclear warhead and all the lines of communications with the Defense Ministries have been taken out. So now, we need to bypass all the traditional layers of command authority, and suddenly, the ability to launch a nuclear retaliatory strike is given to some junior official in a bunker.

[del]I wish this madness would end.[/del]

I wish this madness would end peacefully.

[Love_Rhombus]

We’ve just discovered a lost city of lesbians, and now THIS is reported? Somebody has a cruel sense of humor.

[billfish678]

@Love_Rhombus

We’ve just discovered a lost city of lesbians, and now THIS is reported? Somebody has a cruel sense of humor.

They were never lost. They just fell through the cracks.

[Grrr]

What a doomsday machine might look like