Is There a Dead Man Switch?

Both sides have, or all sides have dead man switches, right? So even if everyone in Russia is dead, they can still fire nukes and vice versa. And that's very important because it means that if Russian... If internal Russian politics don't play out that those low level commanders want to use the nukes, they won't necessarily start flying. As far as we know, that's how it works.

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