The Soviet Union built and tested a semi-automatic "doomsday machine" system for automatic launch of a retaliatory missile strike.

The Perimetr system was a response to the US's deployment of missiles that threatened first-strike destruction of Soviet missiles. Deploying those missiles was a far more aggressive and foolhardy act.

We now know that the doomsday machine was inherent in those missiles: even without a Soviet retaliation, they would have triggered a nuclear winter that would have destroyed civilization (and maybe humanity too).

Amnesty International and two British human rights organizations call on the UK to investigate why GCHQ spied on them.

Judge Orders Pentagon to Get Guantanamo Force-Feeding Videos Ready for Release.

The Michigan judge changed her mind, and sent the disobedient children (who refused to meet with their father) to a summer camp.

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