Nicholas Thompson

1975 (unconfirmed) · American journalist; author of the 2009 Wired feature on the Soviet 'Doomsday Machine'

Journalist who popularised the 'Doomsday Machine'

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2009-09-21 'Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine'

Journalist Nicholas Thompson publishes a Wired feature revealing the Perimeter system to a mass American audience, drawing on Yarynich. The article cements 'Dead Hand' in popular imagination.

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