Posted on 11/12/2015 12:49:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
The airing of the video on television channels under tight Kremlin control raised suspicions that it was done intentionally to scare the West at a time when its ties with Russia are at the lowest point since the Cold War.
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Military experts and commentators traced the nuclear torpedo concept to the 1950s, when it was first offered by Andrei Sakharov, the father of Soviet thermonuclear bomb who later came to defy the Soviet system and won a Nobel Peace Prize. He proposed targeting the U.S. with high-yield nuclear torpedoes that would create huge tsunami waves and high levels of radioactivity to render large coastline areas uninhabitable.
The proposal was rejected, partly because naval technology of the era wouldn't allow a Soviet submarine to approach the U.S. shore undetected.
The Status-6 appears to be a new reincarnation of the old idea, said Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent military analyst.
"The plan is to deliver a 100-megaton nuclear bomb to the U.S. shores," he said. "It would cause a highly radioactive tsunami."
The details of the new weapon shown on Russian state TV indicated that the torpedo, described as a "self-propelled underwater craft" should have a trans-ocean range of 10,000 kilometers (5,400 miles), something military experts considered hardly possible.
But while the torpedo's real range could be much shorter, its relatively small size, a purported operational depth of 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and a speed of 105 kilometers (65 miles per hour) appear realistic, making it difficult to spot and destroy, some observers said.
"Detecting it could be significantly different from detecting a submarine,"said Pavel Podvig, an independent analyst based in Geneva, where he runs his research project focusing on Russian nuclear forces.
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Obama will foul himself and immediately surrender.
Whoops! There goes the secrecy!
....of course the radioactive sea water would eventually make its way back around to Kaliningrad and Vladivostok.
... but in highly diluted form.
Vlad, Boobie sweet heart.... can you do the west coast 1st. Please.
And then the northeast. But there’s nothing of value along the southern coasts to destroy, hint, hint. :-)
LOL. Nothing at all....
Water is stable and cannot be made radioactive on its own. In fact, it absorbs and dissipates radiation quite well.
The bomb and any underwater particles in the blast radius would become floating fallout but that would be too small to have any effect. Remember, enough nukes to destroy both coasts have already been tested under water.
The global danger from nukes is when vaporizing and irradiating semi-stable materials on the surface. All those particles become fallout and spread via winds throughout the globe. They can also create enough dust to block out the sun.
The tsunami idea is genius because it localizes the damage and almost eliminates radiation. While still being very devastating.
Thanks for reminding me that I hate Russians. I used to think they had a Soviet mentality, but now I realize that the thuggishness is a Russian mentality. Imagine that! Surely we also have some cobalt that could be dumped on Moscow if the need arises.
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