All the current political bickering won't mean a thing if Russia ever uses it's Cold War era "Dead Hand" plan. This plan has been largely a secret until recently. If it is every used , and the chances of accidental use are huge, life on earth will cease in a most horrible manner.
Take some time and read to lean just what this thread means to us all.......
Excerpt about this threat........
"An extreme fantasy, yes. But according to a new book called Doomsday Men and several papers on the subject by U.S. analysts, it may not have been merely a fantasy.
According to these accounts, the Soviets built and activated a variation of a doomsday machine in the mid-'80s. And there is no evidence Putin's Russia has deactivated the system.
Instead, something was reactivated in Russia last week. I'm referring to the ominous announcement—given insufficient attention by most U.S. media (the Economist made it the opening of a lead editorial on Putin's Russia)—by Vladimir Putin that Russia has resumed regular "strategic flights" of nuclear bombers. (They may or may not be carrying nuclear bombs, but you can practically hear Putin's smirking tone as he says, "Our [nuclear bomber] pilots have been grounded for too long. They are happy to start a new life.")"
Did the Soviets really build a "doomsday machine"? - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine (http://www.slate.com/id/2173108/pagenum/all/ - broken link)
Hair-Trigger Missiles Risk Catastrophic Terrorism - Bruce Blair's Nuclear Column - Center for Defense Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)
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