Dead Hand (English, name)
expansion: Dead Hand
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wikidata: Q907393
glosses: A weapons system, implemented by the Soviet Union and by the Russian Federation as the successor state thereof, capable of closing a strategic nuclear strike control loop in the absence of normal command and control channels, analogous in concept to a dead man's switch, in anticipation of a decapitation strike.
glosses: Any such system, whether the cardinal instance (the Soviet/Russian one) or another.
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