by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:
While generally of the mindset to watch, learn and write more about what is happening right here in America rather than wasting anger, time, energy and time on other nations, because let us face it, the good ole U.S. of A has a number of problems, cultural and political, it could taken generations to turn around, but when we see reports, news, and internet chatter regarding nuclear war, that type of news could affect every country around the globe.
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There is a difference between the rhetoric and serious threats, as we saw during President Trump’s first term with North Korea, where the Trump haters were convinced his “Fire and fury” threat would dig the U.S. into a war that would turn nuclear as side behind each country.
That ended with a first in modern history handshake between Trump and Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone between North Korea and South Korea.
At the time we insisted Trump was just “speaking” the NK dictator’s language in order to make him understand.
Now we are hearing a totally different type of rhetoric, and while North Korea has been in the news of late, we are focused on the harsh words and threats from and against Russia.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who remains a top Kremlin adviser according to The Hill, has invoked the Russian program “Dead Hand”. In that same Hill article, they describe the “Dead Hand” plan as a situation in “which lower-level officials could trigger a nuclear response if its leaders were taken out. Technically that is correct, but it downplays the reality a bit.
Via Business Standard on the back and forth between Trump and Medvedev:
Further, Medvedev referenced Trump’s interest in pop culture, saying he should “remember his favorite films about ‘The Walking Dead’ and think about how dangerous a ‘dead hand’ can be, even one that doesn’t exist in nature.” He ended the message with a laughing emoji.
The “dead hand” Medvedev referred to is a Cold War-era term used in the West to describe the Soviet Union’s automatic nuclear strike system, known as Perimeter. According to Russian state news agency TASS, the system was designed to ensure a second retaliatory strike even if all top officials were killed in a first attack, news agency PTI reported.
Dead Hand can be activated if the nation’s top leaders were taken out, but it is a doomsday response which would launch Russia’s entire nuclear arsenal.
From Military.com in 2022:
Once switched on, the Perimeter system can launch the entire Russian nuclear arsenal in response to a nuclear attack. It was part of the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction, a means of deterring nuclear attacks by ensuring the side who initiated a first strike also would be annihilated.
Called “Dead Hand” in the West, the theory is that a command and control system measures communications on military frequencies, radiation levels, air pressure, heat and short-term seismic disturbances. If the measurement points to a nuclear attack, the Perimeter begins a sequence that would end in the firing of all ICBMs in the Soviet (now, Russian) arsenal.
This time the words are being backed up by actions, and as Russia has one of the globe’s largest nuclear arsenals, it isn’t something to ignore.
Back to the Hill article we see that on Friday, August 1, President Trump said he was having at least two nuclear submarines in “appropriate regions” near Russia, citing Medvedev threats and reference to “dead hand.”
Another online claim, which needs to be confirmed or verified, include Trump sending “200 nuclear warheads” to the Russian coast.
Other online reports claims Russia’s ally China has taken this moment to amass troops in Fujian, opposite Taiwan, and when taken together with the Russia back and forth threats with the U.S., is seen as a provocative move, which could signal the start of nuclear World War III.
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