Posted on 04/24/2018 10:17:47 PM PDT by familyop
uh, I think the “mechanism” is a really big underwater explosion.
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We’ve had Hydrogen bomb tests in the pacific. There was blast and radiation damage; tsunamis...not so much.
I understand how tsunamis are created and a mammoth hydrogen bomb, unless it somehow triggered something else, would not do it.
Man made global warming, anyone?
I mean that the wave would be thrown in ALL directions, threatening not just US cities but any coastline within thousands of miles. Cuba, South America, even Europe could take a hit in the Atlantic, Indochina, Japan, and mainland China in the Pacific.
Maybe 50 megatons is small compared to the energy released by the 2004 tsunami? That claimed over 100K lives in many countries around the Indian Ocean.
Current warhead in use (W88) is a 475 Kiloton yield.
Actually exploded at depth an dependent on the coastal configuration it could. It would work on New York but not LA or San Fransisco. However really not relevant. Our response would be direct hits on their cities. This is all propaganda.
Was going to say - this sounds like Dead Hand Mark 2.
Rather idiotic IMO.
And how do you stop the 100 foot tsunami headed to your own shores?
How do you keep from destroying everyone’s coastal cities, not just your enemies?
Omg, douching.. lolol
While America Slept (under Obama)
Democrats gave Russia our nuclear Uranium.
Russia gives back a 300 foot Blue Wave covering the Democratic coastal cities, LA & NY.
ENJOY THE BLUE WAVE DEMOCRATS! YOU ALL ELECTED IT!
We flyover Conservatives shall survive just fine with minimal stored provisions. :-)
If this submarine actually travelled at such a speed everyone in the world would know where it was.
It’s screw would be caviting so much it would make enough noise that a any submarine hunter listening 5000 miles away would hear it.
The only use for that speed is to evade a torpedo. But it would not be able to evade a Subrock though. Too bad we don’t have them anymore.
I would be more worried about the world food supply (i.e. seafood), than flooding of the cities.
“Our response would be multiple 250 kiloton weapons across Russia.:
Current warhead in use (W88) is a 475 Kiloton yield.
Thank you for the correction and you are correct.
A nuclear critical mass can be a cylinder, a cone or a flat sheet.
An optimal shape would be a 3D parabola called an elliptic paraboloid focusing energy along its axis toward a coastal city target. The howitzer nuclear launch was likely football shape to fit inside the tube.
Live in the big city at your own risk, but do not be delusional of the extra risk.
Kowabunga! Hang ten, man!
ASROC, or Subrock? ;-)
100 Megatons...
This is retarded. Anyone who falls for this story is retarded. They have to be laughing their asses off about this.
Think about it for a second. A minisub drone, brings a 50 megaton bomb close to a harbor, you got way bigger problems than a 300 foot tidal wave. The biggest bomb ever was the Tsar Bomba and they used one in a test. It was really more of a stunt than a weapon as it was so retardedly big.
Flattened brick buildings 34 miles away from ground zero. Heat could cause 3rd degree burns 62 miles out from the center. Broke windows in Norway and Finland.
That’s like saying you intend to drown someone by dropping an M-1 tank into a swimming pool on top of them.
It probably comes in a big ACME box.
The article actually speaks of a nuclear weapon in a torpedo designed to hit our east coast and produce some fallout: what would be a real dirty bomb. The numbers, of course, are wildly exaggerated.
The Russian threats in propaganda have been even more like threats from Iran than during the Cold War (that is, more funny). And dirty nukes hitting sand on the shores of our east coast would affect relatively small numbers of ocean creatures more than anything.
But yes, some kind of “Dead Hand” system is probably ready in Russia in the form of an automated fail safe system. The nuclear exchange threat is getting closer than before. It is survivable for many, though, and military forces have known that all along. Attempts at invasions would still follow.
One real threat is that of fear in influential political constituents and voters, and desires to direct too much funding away from defense in the meantime. Another real threat would be a kind of attack that we would be less likely to expect.
In any case, our Second Amendment also becomes more important from here on out for several reasons. This is where we live. This is where we produce for warfare however needed. This is where we recruit and train. This is where we would rise to fight again. Foreign leaders who want us out of their way for their efforts at expansion are aware of that.
More physical fitness education and promotions for young people wouldn’t hurt, either. Those are cheap in comparison to training men in person to fight.
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