>>The era of MAD is over. Russia can’t afford an arms race and we really aren’t a threat to them.
Russia still has a mutually assured destruction doomsday device armed and pointed at US.
It is an automated launch system established after a 1983 incident in which a Russian refused an order to launch a MAD “response” to a non-existent US missile attack.
Almost 40 years old, does it still work? Have they kept it updated? Was it dismantled after the USSR collapsed?