Posted on 07/30/2014 2:12:56 AM PDT by blueplum
Russian missiles originally carried 5, 10, or even 20 megaton nuclear weapons as their payloads. The 500 or 800 kt warheads are still devastating given that they are part of MIRV. In which one missile gives a carpet bombing of smaller nukes over an area. The individual nukes are less powerful, but the area gets carpeted with them, making them for practical purposes as devastating as a single larger warhead.
Moscow is 30 percent moslem. IF there is a plan to save Russia from Islam it may include nukes, ours or theres.
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