foreignpolicy.com reports:
The Soviet [… union …] actually built a doomsday machine that would guarantee retaliation — launching all the nuclear missiles — if the leader’s hand went limp.
Compare and contrast Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Same deal, about 20 years earlier.
I love that movie. To me it still remains a excellent contemporary commentary 45 years after it was made.
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