It's time to invest in mine-shafts.Such a weapon would guarantee "that everything living will be killed", the paper said - there would not even be any survivors in bunkers.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31557254"Why are you all so afraid of nuclear war? Why are you afraid of nuclear war?" presenter Aleksey Gudoshnikov asked listeners to the pro-Kremlin station Govorit Moskva last month.
He went on to say that people had survived the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and that these were actually not as destructive as the bombing of Dresden some six months earlier.
"This fear of nuclear war is exaggerated, in my view," the 26-year-old Gudoshnikov concluded.
It's kind of clever; if the delivery system never leaves the water most anti-ballistic systems wouldn't be able to engage it (I assume). Could we detect and intercept such a device?
Another idea a friend of mine proposed was to use civilian cargo ships and simply push a nuclear warhead into the target nations' harbors before a customs check during peace time where the bomb(s) can await remote detonation if needed.
I think the real point was the reference to them possibly using cobalt bombs, right? Those are nasty.
having to travel 6000 miles underwater, it'll probably hit a whale and detonate in the middle of the ocean.
Kind of pointless when a Russian fishing boat carrying a bigger bomb can dock in American ports for a lot less money.
His nationalist bent plays well probably because the people long for the supposed "greatness" of the Soviet Union.Putin's foreign policy is so hamfisted. I'm amazed it plays well to his people.
The point isn't to destroy actual US military assets... it's to damage US economic assets. I could see them detonating this over prime US fisheries and in US offshore oil areas rendering those areas completely useless for centuries to come. Cutting off local seafood would be huge and local oil impact, especially if Russia were to manage to cut us off from foreign oil would be devastating.
Irradiating US assets would be considered an act of war. It would also be impossible to cut off US access to foreign oil unless Russia was willing to nuke Canada and Mexico in the bargain.
Propaganda
His nationalist bent plays well probably because the people long for the supposed "greatness" of the Soviet Union.
Sounds like a Soviet attempt to respond as best they could to the US development of US submarine-launch Polaris missiles.
Reminds me of the nuclear depth charges that US had.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_depth_bomb
Supposedly to be used on enemy submarines preparing to launch nuclear strikes. Pretty sure I wouldn't want to be on the ship that dropped it. D:
The point isn't to destroy actual US military assets... it's to damage US economic assets.
having to travel 6000 miles underwater, it'll probably hit a whale and detonate in the middle of the ocean.
For sure. I just found it amusing, almost like real life is mimicking Cold War satire.Propaganda