America’s nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) system comprises many component systems that were designed and fielded during the Cold War — a period when nuclear missiles were set to ...

Though the Soviet-era Dead Hand does not play the outsized role in Russian nuclear strategy that it used to, here’s to hoping it is not on such a sensitive hair-trigger as during the Cold War.

If America Launched a Nuclear War Against Russia, Moscow's 'Dead Hand' Would Have Struck Back. Even if the Soviet Union’s top military commanders, politicians, leaders, cities, and capital—you ...

'Dead Hand' Re-Examines The Cold War Arms Race Journalist David E. Hoffman revisits the high stakes maneuverings of the Cold War arms race and details the inner-workings of the Soviet nuclear ...

The nuclear 'Dead Hand' stalemate, combined with psychological warfare and economic interests, has created a trap of an unending loop, or Maze. It has now become hard to predict how the Russia ...

Training a nuclear weapons AI program also poses a major challenge, as nukes have, thankfully, only been used twice in history in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, meaning any system would struggle to learn.

Anxiety over a nuclear exchange between super powers seems out of place in a post-Cold War world where conflicts are usually fought within states, rather than between them. But despite the ...

The Dead Hand system was the Soviet Union's last line of deterrence in the event of a crippling nuclear strike, a way to inflict millions of casualties on its enemies even if the Soviet chain of ...

David Hoffman talked about his book [The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy] (Doubleday; September 22, 2009). In his book David Hoffman, former Moscow ...

In reality, an artificial intelligence-enabled nuclear command, control, and communications system with a dead hand capability will never turn into the 1983 movie War Games’ War Operation Plan ...