The ‘Dead Hand’, also known as Perimeter is a Cold-War era automatic or semi-automatic nuclear weapons control system, that could launch a nuclear counterstrike even if the country’s leadership had been wiped out.
Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, who also served as the President from 2008 to 2012 and Prime Minister from 2012 and 2020, has cautioned US President Donald Trump advising him not to disregard the dangers of those he labels “dead”.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump hit out at India and Russia and said that he does not care how the two countries deal with each other, and that they “can take their dead economies down together”.
JUST IN: π·πΊπΊπΈ Former Russian President Medvedev tells President Trump to remember "how dangerous the fabled Dead Hand can be."
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) July 31, 2025
'Dead Hand' is a system that automatically launches nuclear missiles if Russia's leadership is destroyed. pic.twitter.com/aLA8zay7rr
