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Sep 23, 2009 Does Russia Have an Apocalyptic Doomsday Machine?

Wired magazine had this story as compiled by senior editor Nicholas Thompson which concerns revelations from Soviet Colonel Valery Yarynich in March 2009 about a device called the Perimeter, a doomsday device developed by the Soviets during the so-called cold war. It came on line in 1985.

He explains that the system was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to any American nuclear strike. Thus, even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn't matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, and killed everyone at the site. Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched. While the technical name was Perimeter, some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was a closely guarded secret. With the demise of the USSR, word of it did leak out. Although it is dangerous to talk about it, Yarynich risks it because he believes that the world needs to be informed about it.

The Wired story gave the backdrop on the cold war and Reagan’s build up of US forces and the so-called missile shield or defense from anti-missile technology (so called star wars) which would supposedly give the US an advantage in a war built on mutual assured destruction. This situation prompted concern in the Kremlin that the US was planning a first strike so how could the USSR react.

Perimeter was a system to allow a response even if the other side launched a first strike. Per Varynich, “it was designed to lie semi-dormant until switched on by a high official in a crisis. Then it would begin monitoring a network of seismic, radiation, and air pressure sensors for signs of nuclear explosions. Before launching any retaliatory strike, the system had to check off four then propositions: If it was turned on, it would try to determine that a nuclear weapon had hit Soviet soil. If it seemed that one had, the system would check to see if any communication links to the war room of the Soviet General Staff remained. If they did, and if some amount of time—likely ranging from 15 minutes to an hour—passed without further indications of attack, the machine would assume officials were still living who could order the counterattack and shut down.

“But if the line to the General Staff went dead, then Perimeter would infer that apocalypse had arrived. It would immediately transfer launch authority to whoever was manning the system at that moment deep inside a protected bunker—bypassing layers and layers of normal command authority. At that point, the ability to destroy the world would fall to whoever was on duty: maybe a high minister sent in during the crisis, maybe a 25-year-old junior officer fresh out of military academy. And if that person decided to press the button…

“Once initiated, the counterattack would be controlled by so-called command missiles. Hidden in hardened silos designed to withstand the massive blast and electromagnetic pulses of a nuclear explosion, these missiles would launch first and then radio down coded orders to whatever Soviet weapons had survived the first strike. At that point, the machines will have taken over the war. Soaring over the smoldering, radioactive ruins of the motherland, and with all ground communications destroyed, the command missiles would lead the destruction of the US.”

Per the Wired story, “The US did build versions of these technologies, deploying command missiles in what was called the Emergency Rocket Communications System. It also developed seismic and radiation sensors to monitor for nuclear tests or explosions the world over. But the US never combined it all into a system of zombie retaliation. It feared accidents and the one mistake that could end it all. Instead, airborne American crews with the capacity and authority to launch retaliatory strikes were kept aloft throughout the Cold War. Their mission was similar to Perimeter's, but the system relied more on people and less on machines…

“The first mention of a doomsday machine, according to P. D. Smith, author of Doomsday Men, was on an NBC radio broadcast in February 1950, when the atomic scientist Leo Szilard described a hypothetical system of hydrogen bombs that could cover the world in radioactive dust and end all human life. ‘Who would want to kill everybody on earth?’ he asked rhetorically. Someone who wanted to deter an attacker. If Moscow were on the brink of military defeat, for example, it could halt an invasion by declaring, ‘We will detonate our H-bombs.’

“A decade and a half later, Stanley Kubrick's satirical masterpiece Dr. Strangelove permanently embedded the idea in the public imagination. In the movie, a rogue US general sends his bomber wing to preemptively strike the USSR. The Soviet ambassador then reveals that his country has just deployed a device that will automatically respond to any nuclear attack by cloaking the planet in deadly ‘cobalt-thorium-G.’

Per the story, Perimeter was not meant to be a traditional doomsday machine. It was a system built to guarantee that Moscow could hit back. It was designed to keep a Soviet military or civilian leader from launching prematurely during a crisis. Given the paranoia of the era, it was possible that a malfunctioning radar, a flock of geese that looked like an incoming warhead, or a misinterpreted American war exercise could have triggered a catastrophe. Any of these events could have occurred at some point. If they had happened, Armageddon might be the result.

Wired says that “Perimeter solved that problem. If Soviet radar picked up an ominous but ambiguous signal, the leaders could turn on Perimeter and wait. If it turned out to be geese, they could relax and Perimeter would stand down. Confirming actual detonations on Soviet soil is far easier than confirming distant launches. ‘That is why we have the system,’ Yarynich says. ‘To avoid a tragic mistake.’”

Comment: The essence of the story is that the Soviets and now Russia has taken the human element out of the question of whether or not Moscow would respond to a nuclear attack. Thus, when the Dead Hand system is on, it means that machines/technology would monitor events. If evidence surfaced showing a US attack on certain targets, machines would kick off a total counterstrike from nuclear armed missiles stored in secure bunkers. Wired calls such an event, doomsday.

An AP story by Mark Stevenson on “2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist” took note of the Mayan calendar which supposedly runs out on Dec 21, 2012 and increased hype and concern that have recently arisen on the issue. Stevenson quoted some so-called Mayan leaders who discount the relevance of the Dec 21, 2012 date. Yet, there is much concern. Some people are scared over the prospects of the end coming in 2012.

Stevenson took note of the fact that in November, Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas with features about earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House. He goes on to add “A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.” Yet, most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya authorities discount any significance of that date.

But the Mayan 2012 idea does have some archaeological basis in a find at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in back in the 1960s called Monument Site. The stone tablet almost didn't survive as the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted. The surviving part does contain the equivalent of the date 2012 with an inscription describing something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. Stevenson quotes archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico's National Autonomous University who interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, "He will descend from the sky.

The story reported that the Mayan civilization, at its height from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D., had a talent for astronomy and added that “Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.”

Reportedly, the Mayans knew that the “Earth's axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year. Once every 25,800 years, the sun supposedly lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun's lowest point in the horizon. That will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright center of galaxy sets.”

Author John Major Jenkins was quoted. He says his two-decade study of Mayan ruins indicates that the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it. Per Jenkins, “If we want to honor and respect how the Maya think about this, then we would say that the Maya viewed 2012, as all cycle endings, as a time of transformation and renewal.”

Another author, Lawrence Joseph, was also cited. He says a peak in explosive storms on the surface of the sun could knock out North America's power grid for years, triggering food shortages, water scarcity - a collapse of civilization. Solar peaks occur about every 11 years, but Joseph says there's evidence the 2012 peak could be "a lulu."

A History Channel program titled "Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012: End of Days" says a galactic alignment or magnetic disturbances could somehow trigger a “pole shift.” A narrator adds “The entire mantle of the earth would shift in a matter of days, perhaps hours, changing the position of the north and south poles, causing worldwide disaster. Earthquakes would rock every continent, massive tsunamis would inundate coastal cities. It would be the ultimate planetary catastrophe.”

Comment: While I can’t perceive the world ending in 2012, my take is that there will be serious trouble worldwide by that date. For sure, the US will be in much trouble and may be history by then from WWIII. As Scriptural prophecies seem to declare, the United States and other House of Israel nations are going to go down the tubes in the age-end, likely from a defeat in WWIII.