Get Nervous: Rusty Soviet Doomsday System Still Turned On
Wired Magazine has afascinating articleon the Day of Judgment system of rules that was built by the Soviets 25 years ago . It was design to obliterate the US no matter what come about to the USSR — and it still work today . Shiver . The gunpoint of the scheme , he explains , was to guarantee an automatic Soviet reply to an American atomic strike . Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprisal attack , the Soviets could still hit back ....