https://www.wired.com/2007/09/soviet-doomsday/
BRANDON KEIM
SCIENCE
09.07.07 10:51 AM
SOVIET DOOMSDAY DEVICE STILL ARMED AND READY
https://www.wired.com/2009/09/mf-deadhand/
NICHOLAS THOMPSONNICHOLAS THOMPSON
BUSINESS
09.21.09 12:00 PM
INSIDE THE APOCALYPTIC SOVIET DOOMSDAY MACHINE
Actually seems like a fairly sensible device as far as you can be sensible with MAD.
First, it has to be turned on - it isn’t always running.
Then there has to be an event that looks like a nuclear attack - seismic, air pressure and radiological events.
Then it has to lose communication with the upper levels of the chain of command.
Only then does it start executing the ‘dead hand’ protocols.
I’d be more worried about subversion than anything.