- It is a transmitter sending encoded inteligence directives to spies in the field
- It is a russian Classical Music Station that outsiders just really can't appriciate fully
- (my favorite) It is a cold war era practical joke aimed at U.S. intel and is actually nothing more than an electric buzzer sitting in a shack somewhere designed to irritate whoever is assigned to monitor it for no apperent reason.
- It is a component of the "Dead Hand" second strike response automated nuclear launch system, designed to launch all of russia's nukes in the event we took out Moscow, theoretically part of a system of sensors that in the event they cease and a large seismic anomoly is detected, the system assumes we launched and shoots all their missiles. In theory, the radio station cutoff would only occur in the event we destroyed moscow since it is close enough to be affected by the EMP but far enough for shielded components to survive
- It is a component of the more sinister theoretical variant of "dead hand" and actually is supposed to trigger one of several large hydrogen bombs inside very deep shafts near the earth's crust. The bombs, based on the Tsar Bombe design, would detonate a set amount of time after contact was lost with moscow, theoretically destroying the planet by blowing a hole through the mantle and allowing the earths magnetic core to erupt to the surface, killing everyone.
Or it could be something else entirely. But, if the conspiracy nuts are right, an irrevocble countdown has now started and the planet will go <KrackBOOOM... Spoit!> here in the next few hours.
Edited, Jun 7th 2010 12:30am by Nizdaar