A New Arms Race Threatens to Bring the U.S. and Russia Back to the Nuclear Brink
The horror and reactions to the Paris massacre have overshadowed a
troubling new twist in the U.S.-Russian rivalry
that could prove even more terrifying. Russian state media recently
"accidentally" revealed plans for a bizarre new nuclear torpedo.
More of an underwater drone, it is designed to swim 6,000 miles enough to
span the oceans underwater just as long-range missiles do in the air.
It would detonate a huge warhead, a hydrogen bomb equal to a million tons of TNT or more but
"salted" with special metals to vastly increase the amount of radiation it would pour into a U.S. port city.
The explosion would create a radioactive tsunami. The purpose, according to Russian TV,
would be to devastate "the important components of the adversary's economy in a coastal area and
[inflict] unacceptable
damage to a country's territory by creating areas of wide radioactive contamination
that would be unsuitable for military, economic or other activity for long periods of time."
This is an insane, inhumane weapon that deliberately targets civilians.
It deliberately seeks to turn a city into a radioactive wasteland that would last for decades.
It is a throwback to the worse designs of the Cold War, long since abandoned.
They're not stupid. As soon as that rocket is fire the us will know. Secondly unless russia wants to look like Hiroshima they better sit that mess down.
i don't think they wanna use it on the USA, they want to destroy Constantinople...
Quote:
"Istanbul is very easy to destroy: just one nuclear bomb in the Strait of Bosphorus, and it will wash away. It will be such a terrible flood, the water column will rise 10-15 meters, and the city will not be there any more, and there are 9 million lives in that city", — said the leader of the liberal Democrats.
Turkish social media have been circulating images claiming to show a Russian serviceman on a naval vessel passing by Istanbul holding what appears to be a rocket launcher. Ankara has slammed the reported incident as a “provocation”.
Fearmongering. The article later states that the weapons the U.S. will be deploying to Europe are more powerful than anything Russia has actually built thus far, and that our military is working on better defense systems that would be able to counteract this.
damn
