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great book I recommend it to people who like a story about a weapon of mass destruction the nuke.

"Perimetr" would automatically unleash nuclear retaliation if 1) The general staff of the USSR activated it, 2) Hidden sensors reported atomic weapons striking soviet cities and military installations and 3) Contact with the soviet general staff was broken off, in which case it was assumed that the military and political leadership were dead.

After bombs had detonated, officers ordered their underlings to go to Ground Zero and extract water samples with their bare hands. Many of the sailors around the lake collected salmons whose air-bladders had exploded, and they fried them on fires and ate them. Many of the soldiers died of radiation poisoning afterwards.