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Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
2009-09-21 | Nicholas Thompson

Posted on 09/22/2009 7:35:18 PM PDT by justlurking

Link only, due to Wired's copyright complaints.

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

I'm posting this without any text, because I think it's important.

The "Doomsday" machine is apparently real, and still operational. Read the article for more details.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Russia
KEYWORDS: bloodythirstycommies; coldwar; coldwar2; communismkills; communistplot; destruction; doomsdaymachine; drstrangelove; genreagan; georgecscott; mad; massmurder; mutualdestruction; mutuallyassured; nonukes; nuclearapocalypse; obamalegacy; putin; russia; sovietreunion; sovietunion; strangelove; usefulidiots; ussr; worldwar4; worldwariv
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To: justlurking
All jokes aside (and they are funny jokes), I gleaned this detail from the article:

"...in 1962, Robert McNamara ordered every nuclear weapon locked with numerical codes. Effect: None. Irritated by the restriction, Strategic Air Command set all the codes to strings of zeros. The Defense Department didn't learn of the subterfuge until 1977."

I find this enormously reassuring. If SAC was able to outmaneuver that Communist useful idiot McNamara, at some point an even greater Communist stooge will be unceremoniously outmaneuvered and removed from Office to prevent any further treason against the United States.
21 posted on 09/22/2009 8:19:22 PM PDT by mkjessup (0bama?!?!? ********* YOU LIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ************)
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To: skeptoid

Ahem, MAJOR Kong.

Plan “R” ?!?!?!

Yes sir, “R” for Romeo.


22 posted on 09/22/2009 8:38:22 PM PDT by Moe Tzadik
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To: rlmorel

Much nicer and more effective in the original B/W.


23 posted on 09/22/2009 8:45:04 PM PDT by Moe Tzadik
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To: Palin Republic

15 Area 51’s?


24 posted on 09/22/2009 8:46:05 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: mkjessup

“...in 1962, Robert McNamara ordered every nuclear weapon locked with numerical codes. Effect: None. Irritated by the restriction, Strategic Air Command set all the codes to strings of zeros. The Defense Department didn’t learn of the subterfuge until 1977.”

That’s funny, and somewhat disturbing. But also reassuring.

I remember reading somewhere that the Soviets armed FROG artillery missles with nuclear warheads in the event of a U.S. landing in Cuba in ‘62. Man, that was stupid. Tactical nukes scare me more than the big boys.


25 posted on 09/22/2009 9:06:36 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Revolting cat!

Morther Russia has closed the Doomsday Machine gap.

And Brak Brak is reducing our nuclear arsenal.

It was the Soviet Communists who almost launched a Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear launch back in 1983 all because of faulty equipment on their end.

No Nukes was always about stifling the US. They have been silent on Iran.


26 posted on 09/22/2009 9:35:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: justlurking
The KGB Colonel in this article claims that althought it was kept a secret, it actually calmed down the Soviet leadership -- because they no longer felt they needed to "launch on warning", as long as they thought this system would exact revenge.

September 26th, 1983, the Commies almost DID launch on warning.

And they punished the man who refused the order to launch.

27 posted on 09/22/2009 9:40:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Palin Republic
especially in support of Moscow’s aggressive plans to become a major builder and exporter of nuclear energy-related technologies.”

The communist sympathizers in the anti-nuke movement are going to cry. Not.

28 posted on 09/22/2009 9:43:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: mkjessup

Someone posted a picture of that rat McNamara and LBJ pointing out their scheming to lose the Vietnam War and compared it to Hussein in Afghanistan.

What sucks in the Islamo-marxist is worse than those two.

All LBJ cared about was lining his pockets. At least he was not VC/jihadist like the islamist is.


29 posted on 09/22/2009 10:06:11 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: justlurking
Какие Bullshit, но смешно....JMHO. Too bad no more SAC command( allegedly) since Clintoon closed it's mighty doors...wonder what zero will do, a boy and his football, a boy and his football.....
30 posted on 09/22/2009 10:17:49 PM PDT by Karliner (Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. DDE)
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To: justlurking
Old news.....Didn't leaks on this occur just before the Ex-Soviets relocked all their files...To protect klintoon...
31 posted on 09/22/2009 10:34:34 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: justlurking

Its a fact. Dead Hand is a reality. A real “doomsday machine” would be an antimatter bomb big enough to destroy an entire country or continent. The USAF has been working on this for many years.


32 posted on 09/22/2009 11:32:31 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: justlurking

33 posted on 09/22/2009 11:41:37 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: Tublecane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aYPEV7mk0w&feature=related


34 posted on 09/23/2009 12:35:21 AM PDT by mkjessup (The *NEW* 1953 280 mm Atomic Cannon - More BANG for the Buck! (look Ma, no tailfins! lol))
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To: mkjessup

the good old 280 mm “Atomic Annie” Operation Upshot Knothole/Shot Grable. It produced a double fireball. Fantastic weapon. I have the entire history on my I-POD.


35 posted on 09/23/2009 1:04:18 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: mkjessup

An rather interesting feature of the blast was the formation of a precursor, a second shock front ahead of the incident wave. This precursor was formed when the shock wave reflected off the ground.


36 posted on 09/23/2009 1:06:38 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: sonofstrangelove
The Atomic Annie was an amazing weapon, although I have to say that the
Davy Crockett Atomic Rifle was something to behold:
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"I am firmly convinced that the Davy Crockett Atomic Rifle is a weapon which is certainly protected by the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and requires no more restriction than regulated, fully automatic weapons as defined by the United States Treasury"
- Congressman Samuel Nortolcyc (D) - Illinois, 1963
37 posted on 09/23/2009 4:06:45 AM PDT by mkjessup (The *NEW* 1953 280 mm Atomic Cannon - More BANG for the Buck! (look Ma, no tailfins! lol))
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To: justlurking

Bump for later read


38 posted on 09/23/2009 4:07:34 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Palin Republic

Thanks! I’ll read up on it more.


39 posted on 09/23/2009 5:04:28 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (http://www.muckety.com/7BECFF40501E647D3741343C37265A57.map)
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To: mkjessup

Ok, who’s the wiseguy!!!

I said HE, not Nuke!!!


40 posted on 09/23/2009 5:22:08 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
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