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Originally built 25 years ago, the system was created to ensure a nuclear
retaliation if Russia were attacked by the US. Should this happen, the system
would be triggered by an elaborate network of sensors positioned around
Russia, it would then retaliate with an all-out launch of missiles against targets
throughout the US.
At the time that Dead Hand was created, many Russian military strategists
feared US ballistic nuclear submarines and their first strike capabilities. If the
submarines were to stealthily move within Russias territorial waters, they
could strike with very little notice. This would make it possible for the
Americans to destroy the entire Soviet leadership without provoking a
retaliation by the leaderless Soviet military. To combat this perceived
weakness, the Soviets created Dead Hand to ensure they maintained a second
strike capability regardless of a US first strike outcome.
One of the many systems that Dead Hand relies on is an interesting reserve
communication system known as Perimeter. Perimeter consists of a network
of command rockets that are used to transmit launch commands directly to the
strategic missile launchers. Once Perimeter received commands to proceed,
the rockets would be launched and begin broadcasting launch orders to the
missile launch sites continuously for up to 50 minutes. This ensured that, even
if communication networks were disabled, launch commands could still be sent
to strategic missile regiments in the field and a nuclear strike could proceed.
In typical Cold Warera reasoning, Dead Hand was just one more level of
annihilation stacked on top of the already terrifying idea of mutual selfdestruction, perhaps (theoretically) giving the Americans one more reason to
pause their itchy trigger fingers. However, the scariest part of Dead Hand is the
fact that it does not require human intervention at all. If an event, like an
asteroid, triggers its detectors in any way that resemble a nuclear attack, Dead
Hand is more than capable of beginning the process of nuclear annihilation all
on its own. According to reports, it would attempt to contact political and
military leaders, and if they could not be contacted within a specified period of
time, it could decide its own time for retaliation.
All is not lost it seems, as Russia had the good sense to place human
intervention somewhere within this process. Situated deep underground in a
bunker sit three Russian duty officers who decide whether or not to begin
Armageddon. It rests in their good hands to question whether said event
passed from Dead Hand was an actual nuclear attack or something of a much
more benign nature. If it is determined that a real attack had occurred and the
Moscow leadership had been destroyed or was unreachable, they were tasked
with deciding whether or not to initiate the Perimeter system and launch all
their remaining missiles.

Luckily for us Russia did not go through with their original, fully automatic
version of Dead Hand . . . assuming that we take them at their word on that
particular point. What do you say, Ukraine?

Dead Hand
Dead Hand (Russian: , Systema "Perimetr", 15601), also
known as Perimeter, is a Cold-War-era nuclear-control system used by the
Soviet Union. General speculation from insiders alleges that the system
remains in use in post-Soviet Russia. An example of fail-deadly deterrence, it
can automatically trigger the launch of the Russian intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBMs) if a nuclear strike is detected by seismic, light, radioactivity
and overpressure sensors. By most accounts, it is normally switched off and is
supposed to be activated during dangerous crises only; however, it is said to
remain fully functional and able to serve its purpose whenever needed.

Motivation
The purpose of the "Dead Hand" system, as described in a book of the same
name, was to maintain a second strike capability, by ensuring that the
destruction of the Soviet leadership would not have prevented the Soviet
military from releasing its weapons.
Soviet concern about the issue grew with the U.S. development of highly
accurate submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) systems in the 1980s.
Until then, the United States would have delivered most nuclear weapons by
long-range bomber or ICBM. Earlier U.S. sub-launched missiles, such as the
1960s-vintage UGM-27 Polaris and 1970s-vintage UGM-73 Poseidon, were
considered too inaccurate for a counterforce or first strike attack, an attack
against an opponent's weapons. SLBMs were reserved for attacking cities,
where accuracy was of less importance. In the first case, an opponent with
effective radar and satellite surveillance could expect a 30-minute warning of
an attack before the first detonation. This made an effective first strike difficult,
because the opponent would have time to launch on warning to reduce the risk
of their forces being destroyed on the ground. The development of highly
accurate SLBMs, such as the Trident C4 and later the D5 upset this balance.
The Trident D5 is considered to be as accurate as any land based ICBM.
Therefore, US or UK Trident submarine systems could stealthily approach an
enemy's coast and launch highly accurate warheads at close range, reducing

the available warning to less than 3 minutes, making a counterforce first strike
or a decapitation strike viable.
The USSR took steps to ensure that nuclear retaliation, and hence deterrence,
remained possible even if its leadership were destroyed in a surprise attack. In
contrast, Thompson argues that Perimeter's function was to limit acts of
misjudgement by political or military leaderships in the tight decision making
window between SLBM or cruise missile launches, and impact. He quotes
Zheleznyakov on the purpose of Perimeter being "to cool down all these
hotheads and extremists. No matter what was going to happen, there still
would be revenge."
"Russia is acutely aware of its conventional weakness," Nichols writes at The
National Interest. "[E]ven as they torment Ukraine right under NATOs nose, the
Russians know that they have no chance against NATO without nuclear
weapons."

Current Use
In 2011, the commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, Sergey
Karakaev, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, confirmed the
operational state of the Perimeter assessment and communication system

By Facebook Russia says

System "Perimeter" dubbed in the west "dead hand"
American magazine Wired frightened writes:
Russia has the world's only weapon that guarantees a retaliatory nuclear strike
against the enemy, even a nightmare if we have no one to make a decision on
this beat. The unique system automatically counterattack - and cruel.
The system of "perimeter" (UCD Index SMF - 15E601, dubbed the West "dead
hand" in the East, "The hand of the grave") - a control system Strategic Missile
Forces - SRF. In the documents, it was named "Perimeter". The system assumes
the creation of hardware and software that would allow in any circumstances,
even the most disadvantaged, to bring order to the missile launches directly to
the starting team. According to the creators, "Perimeter" system to make the
preparation and launching of rockets, even in the case if all the dead and give
the order would have no one. It is this component and became informally
known as "dead hand or arm from the grave."
How the system works:

The logic of action "dead hand" involves regular collection and processing of
huge amount of information. From various sensors acted very different
information. For example, on the state lines with a higher command post: there
is a connection - no connection. Radiation situation in the surrounding areas:
normal radiation levels - high levels of radiation. The presence on the starting
position of the people there are people - not people. About recorded nuclear
explosions and so on and so forth.
"The Dead Hand" had the ability to analyze changes in the military and political
situation in the world - the system evaluates the team that comes in for a
certain period of time, and on this basis could be concluded that the world is
wrong. When the system is believed that it was her time, she stepped up and
runs the command to start training missiles.
While the "dead hand" could not begin active operations in peacetime. Even if
there was no connection, and even if all of a crew away from the launch pad,
there was still plenty of other options that would block the system.
After the order received from the senior management, the Strategic Missile
Forces in a special command post, there is a start command missiles 15P011
with a special warhead 15B99, which sends commands to the flying start all PU
and control centers of the SMF, with appropriate receivers.

The concept of the system

The system is designed for guaranteed start mine ICBMs and SLBMs, if as a
result of an enemy for a devastating nuclear attack on the USSR will destroy all
command level SRF able to order the retaliatory strike. The system is the only
one existing in the world doomsday machine (weapons guaranteed retribution),
whose existence was officially confirmed. The system is still classified and may
still be on the alert, so any information about it can not be confirmed as a
uniquely authentic, or disproved, and should be treated with due skepticism.
At its core, the system of "Perimeter" is an alternative to the command system
for all types of troops, armed with nuclear warheads. It was created as a
backup system, in case the key components of the command and
communication lines Kazbek SRF will be destroyed first strike, according to the
U.S. developed the concept of limited nuclear war. In order to ensure
implementation of its role as the system was initially designed as a fully
automatic in the case of a massive attack is able to decide on a counter attack
on their own, without (or with minimal) human. The existence of such a system
in the West as immoral, but it is essentially the only deterrent that gives real
guarantees failure potential opponent of the concept of preventive knockdown.

Comment:
I think the news say it all, though, we can not trust information such as what is
an apocalypse, in my opinion I'm religious, any weapon or killed virus belief in
God, much less the existence of man may reduce us but never annihilate.
It is my opinion on the matter.