People proceed to plot modern methods to kill each other. Bullets merely is not going to suffice in fashionable warfare. Moscow has developed nuclear torpedo missiles which have the power to drown whole cities by way of 1,600-foot-high radioactive tsunamis.
Know-how of this nature has by no means been developed or utilized. “For the primary time, we managed not solely to launch it with a launch engine from a service submarine, but in addition to launch the nuclear energy unit on which this gadget handed a sure period of time,” Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned, calling the take a look at a “enormous success.”
Named after the Greek god of the ocean, Poseidon is way extra highly effective than probably the most superior intercontinental ballistic missile. Secrecy surrounds the main points of the Poseidon, however experiences consider that it may well carry a 2 megaton warhead. For reference, such a weapon is 150 instances extra highly effective than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima throughout World Conflict II.
Russia tried to check this expertise in 2022 however failed. Moscow started creating this expertise in 2018 after the US pulled out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and started increasing its NATO stronghold throughout the globe.
A nuclear tsunami wouldn’t solely flood whole coastal cities, however it might create long-lasting, ceaselessly contamination, therefore being dubbed a “flying Chernobyl.” The radioactive fallout can be unimaginable. Giant areas can be uninhabitable for generations and there may be completely no solution to undo the harm. Casualties might attain a number of million if detonated close to a densely populated coastal metropolis. Demise can be instant for many and gradual and extended for these uncovered to the radiation.
A 1,600-foot tsunami can be one of many largest in fashionable historical past. Compared, the 2011 tsunamis triggered by an earthquake in Japan reached 43 ft. The 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami in Alaska, the best on file, reached 1,720 ft and was triggered by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake when 30 million cubic meters of rock slid into the Lituya Bay. The tsunami destroyed 1.5 sq. miles of land and reached elevations above 700 ft. Fortunately, it was a comparatively remoted space, however the panorama and ecosystem have been completely altered. Once more, that tsunami was merely a pure occasion, not attributable to a nuclear weapon.
I urge anybody prepared to take heed to learn the Peace Proposal—destruction from fashionable warfare is unimaginable and fully preventable if these in energy conform to peace.
