Reply to post: Re: Re "which could potentially bypass missile defences"

Experimental hypersonic SUPERMISSILE destroyed 4 SECONDS after US launched it

Phil Endecott

Re: Re "which could potentially bypass missile defences"

> Not a lot of time to make your mind up :(

Read "The Dead Hand" by David E Hoffman. The Soviet military were concerned that their political leaders would be too slow to make a retaliatory decision, so they built a "dead hand" system that would automatically launch their missiles if they didn't get a command not to do so.

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