I thought no one had ever built an actual operational doomsday device, even the Sovs? The closest if memory serves was when the CCCP made their missiles launchable from the Kremlin.
I mean, it's what I'd have if I were KJU... and it's exactly what we'd expect them to put in place if they fear the kinds of decapitating attack that we have threatened. https://twitter.com/shashj/status/958391832437841920 …
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The Soviet and the US both made systems that, while not fully-automated (they still required some human judgment/input), were highly streamlined in the event of a "decapitating" strike.
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The Soviet Perimetr ("Dead Hand") system is as close to an automated system as was ever deployed — once activated, if contact was lost to the Kremlin, missiles were meant to be launched from a more remote location. Not full-auto, but close enough.
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The (admittedly) translated Russian sources I have read was that Perimtr was designed more to assuage hot heads after Able Archer and Pershing deployment, then actually being operational.
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I think there was a book called "The Dead Hand" that dives into a doomsday system the USSR had in place.
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