Remember that post from January, Before the Clock Strikes Twelve..? Yeah, neither did I – until I saw that Wired had managed to interview one someone who is most certainly talking about it: (unless the man’s crazy, he has nothing to gain – and we all have plenty to lose) Valery Yarynich glances nervously over [...]

I was discussing the would-have-been proto-disaster “Y2K” was made out to be with a friend when the subject of the “Dead Hand” system came up – interestingly enough, there is less and less information to suggest that the Soviet retaliatory system was a hoax. There are even some compelling arguments that the Cold War specter [...]