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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by wongarsu on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:30AM (#38304910)
The mechanism of using a single doomsday weapon is somewhat unique, but the effect isn't that different from the actually implemented Dead Hand system that ensured that eliminating the Russian command structure would trigger a rocket that sends out launch commands to all ICBMs. Though that was implemented years after the movie came out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by sillywalk on Friday November 17, 2023 @04:37PM (#38310784)
I recall that the system existed to ensure that cooler heads (in Russia) could have more time to ensure that they were being actually being nuked i.e. it wasn't a false alarm, and that retaliation was guaranteed.
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