3/8/2025–|Last update: 12:19 (Mecca time)
The Le Parisien newspaper said that the tension escalated between Washington and Moscow when the Russian nuclear regime mentioned the “dead hand” by a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, and asked about what this response mechanism is.
The newspaper pointed out – in a report by Lucas Cruze – that the phrase “dead hand” that was uttered by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev increased tension between Russia and the United States, so that US President Donald Trump announced that two nuclear submarines from the Russian coast were brought closer.
This phrase indicates a system that is supposed to ensure the operation of Russian nuclear weapons with complete independence, and even almost without leadership. “This system aims to warn the Americans as if to say:” beware. If you attack us, by surprise, we will guarantee you to respond anyway. “
This system, which was also developed during the Soviet era known as “Primeter”, is based on a network of sensors scattered across Russian territory, capable of monitoring any huge nuclear attack. “These devices are sensitive to both explosions and flashes of the nuclear explosion,” said researcher Etienne Marcuse at the Strategic Research Foundation.
The aim of this “Primter” system in light of the Soviet regime was to calm fears from a judicial American blow, aimed at neutralizing all the Soviet thinking and leadership centers to prevent any nuclear response, because “the Soviets and after them the Russians – according to Markoz – were afraid of this scenario for a long time, but thanks to the Primeter regime, the United States will not think or others in directing a first blow”, knowing that this system is determined Historically to strike the United States.
The risk of a possibility of false warning
This system has evolved greatly since its inception, as it was initially almost automatically and pose a huge threat due to the risk of a false warning. In 1983, for example, a Soviet officer refused to believe the computer system that predicted an American missile attack on the Soviet Union, it could have changed the world’s face, and Jean de Glinite said, “The natural heat emissions were deceived.”
Since then, it seems that the Russians have added an intermediate step to reduce this danger, as Jean de Glinhest says that the decision is now in the hands of a “small headquarters in a shelter”, and then human intervention is still present, which is “somewhat reassuring”, according to the French diplomat.
But these response systems that maintain nuclear deterrence are still very mysterious, because countries do not want to reveal their details, just as they do not reveal their submarine sites, although launching a nuclear attack requires a political decision.
The newspaper concluded that the United States – as it is said – has similar systems, but its precise nature is mysterious, and in France there is a system to ensure the sending of the launch order when there is a nuclear blow that leads to the life of the President of the Republic and his direct constitutional successor, and “but the decision will always be taken by a natural person,” says Etienne Marcuse, because the precedence of human beings is always on machines in relation to nuclear affairs, so far.
