Some Russian politicians might have gotten the idea of broadcasting fear with talk about a cobalt bomb “doomsday device” from the part with the Russian Ambassador in the “Dr. Strangelove” movie. Or maybe they got it from their predecessors.
Dr. Strangelove lives
So now we’ve got a doomsday gap. I hate it when that happens.
J/K...........
I doubt the existence of such a weapon but I do not doubt that anyone can put a cruise missile sized nuke within a conventionally sized torpedo.
“experts say” 300 foot tsunamis. And House Atreides says bull crap! By what mechanism would they create them?
Send it to space, as a defensive weapon Mr. Putin. It has no logical place on Earth.
Great weapon.
I seem to recall that something like 70 or 80% of the world’s population lives within 50 miles of the ocean’s coast.
these doomsday weapons of last resort exist in name and hype only. it’s what an ultimate deterrent weapon is all about.
Silly article this is, though technologically correct. We can do the exact same but Russia has few seacoast cities of importance with the exception of St. Petersburg. Our response would be multiple 250 kiloton weapons across Russia.
Amusing article for the ill informed this is..
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.
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?
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.
Kowabunga! Hang ten, man!
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.