Russian analyst urges nuclear attack on Yellowstone National Park and San Andreas fault line
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
A Russian geopolitical analyst says the best way to attack the United States is to detonate nuclear weapons to trigger a supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park or along the San Andreas fault line on California's coast.
The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems based in Moscow, Konstantin Sivkov said in an article for a Russian trade newspaper on Wednesday, VPK News, that Russia needed to increase its military weapons and strategies against the "West" which was "moving to the borders or Russia".
He has a conspiracy theory that NATO - a political and military alliance which counts the US, UK, Canada and many countries in western Europe as members - was amassing strength against Russia and the only way to combat that problem was to attack America's vulnerabilities to ensure a "complete destruction of the enemy".
"Geologists believe that the Yellowstone supervolcano could explode at any moment. There are signs of growing activity there. Therefore it suffices to push the relatively small, for example the impact of the munition megaton class to initiate an eruption. The consequences will be catastrophic for the United States - a country just disappears," he said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/russian-analyst-urges-nuclear-attack-on-yellowstone-national-park-and-san-andreas-fault-line-20150331-1mbl14.html
I didn't really want to post this because it is so utterly fucked up and shocking to actually process.....
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)that the GOP loves and French kisses.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)the current russophobe atmosphere.
See my post below.
Judi Lynn
(160,448 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)Harry Turtledove recently penned a thriller revolving around a Yosemite supervolcano - no Russians involved. Enjoyable book, but I'm not sure it should be used as the basis of a Russian nuclear first strike.
And, let's face it, the nuclear thing is likely to have a tad more impact than the supervolcano thing.
bananas
(27,509 posts)From google translate:
Подробнее: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://vpk-news.ru/articles/24405&usg=ALkJrhgrJlW1oGJ1UW1Lq612lmMge3aTGw
For those unfamiliar with Sakharov:
He became renowned as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. Sakharov later became an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the Soviet Union, for which he faced state persecution; these efforts earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. The Sakharov Prize, which is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named in his honour.[1]
His work on the nuclear program ultimately led Sakharov down the road toward dissent. Following the test of the first Soviet superbomb in 1955, Sakharov became increasingly disturbed by the consequences of his work: "When you see all of this yourself, something in you changes," he wrote. "When you see the burned birds who are withering on the scorched steppe, when you see how the shock wave blows away buildings like houses of cards, when you feel the reek of splintered bricks, when you sense melted glass, you immediately think of times of war... All of this triggers an irrational yet very strong emotional impact. How not to start thinking of one's responsibility at this point?"
In 1957 his concern about the biological hazards of nuclear testing inspired him to write an article about the effects of low-level radiation. In it he concluded that, the detonation of a one-megaton bomb would create 10,000 human casualties. "Halting the tests," he wrote, "will directly save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people." Over the next ten years he became more and more concerned with civic issues. And in 1968, while still working on the Soviet nuclear weapons program, Sakharov wrote an essay that would thrust him into the international spotlight.
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) was a Soviet physicist who became, in the words of the Nobel Peace Committee, a spokesman for the conscience of mankind. He was fascinated by fundamental physics and cosmology, but first he spent two decades designing nuclear weapons. He came to be regarded as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, contributing perhaps more than anyone else to the military might of the USSR. But gradually Sakharov became one of the regime's most courageous critics, a defender of human rights and democracy. He could not be silenced, and helped bring down one of history's most powerful dictatorships. This exhibit tells about Sakharov's extraordinary life.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)the short term climatic changes will probably hit Russia, northern Europe and Canada hardest, imagine another Year without Summer, but lasting 5 years or more, worldwide food shortages, crops destroyed for years, etc. Russia, N. Europe and Canada would be in a deep freeze for that length of time, and I imagine the people there, whoever survives, would have to flee, becoming stateless refugees.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)"Mutually Assured Destruction" do you not understand?
yurbud
(39,405 posts)about what would happen to a small country with a handful of nukes used one against a nation with thousands or even just hundreds.
Or at least that's what they pretend when they claim countries like Iraq or Iran would be a threat to us if they had nukes.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)getting a few nukes is that it would seriously screw up our ability to illegally invade them. The Marines are not going to be too gung ho about pushing into a country that could actually defend itself to the tune of a 50 kt welcome.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Evil or not, you don't become dictator of a country by being stupid.
William Seger
(10,775 posts)gordianot
(15,232 posts)Mother nature does not respect puny humans and already has plans for payback.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)The Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator
The Bush Administration requested funding from Congress to research a new type of nuclear bomb. The Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) is a nuclear weapon that would burrow a few meters into rock or concrete before exploding and thus generating a powerful underground shock wave. Its hypothetical targets are deeply buried command bunkers or underground storage sites containing chemical or biological agents.
The RNEP budget: RNEP is not just a feasibility study: the Department of Energy's 2005 budget included a five-year projectiontotaling $484.7 millionfor the weapons laboratories to produce a completed warhead design and begin production engineering by 2009.[1] Last year, David L. Hobson, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, zeroed out FY05 funding for the program, stating, "we cannot advocate for nuclear nonproliferation around the globe, while pursuing more usable nuclear weapons options here at home." However, the FY06 budget request includes $4 million for RNEP and an additional $4.5 million to modify the B-2 bomber to carry the weapon.
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_weapons_and_global_security/solutions/us-nuclear-weapons/the-robust-nuclear-earth.html
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Tsk.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)Jerry442
(1,265 posts)Victor von Doom has a new nefarious plan.
PFunk
(876 posts)IF you're willing to doom Russia (and the rest of the world) along with it due to it's major aftereffects (just look up what happens if that super-volcano is set off).
Talk about not thinking things thru (shesh).
muriel_volestrangler
(101,263 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Is he still in Mother Russia?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)are just sick and evil. This is one of them. And he's some kind of analyst figuring out ways to destroy millions including, probably, himself and those he are working for. People like this are 'in charge' all over the world. I just can't feel comfortable anymore with my tenuous existence on this planet. At one time I though there was a reason for the human race to be here, but with jerks like this roaming the planet, the reason seems to be that we're here to destroy each other. Sickening and depressing.
Gman
(24,780 posts)I guess they're everywhere.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Bonhomme Richard
(8,997 posts)NickB79
(19,224 posts)As powerful as a nuclear warhead is, it's nothing compared to what Mother Nature slings.
And a surface blast above either Yellowstone or San Andreas would have no effect on whether or not either geologic feature let lose.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)"Complete destruction of the enemy"
Except, of course, for all the submarine-based missiles that would then rain down on his head.
I guess the US of A does not have a monopoly on mindless warmongers after all.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)newthinking
(3,982 posts)in the military. Probably the only way he can get noticed is by saying things like this. How much you want to bet he has financial interests in the arms manufacturers?
The guy is so insignificant that it was incredibly difficult to find his bio. Why does the international press repeat what he says?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)fracking if the oil industry is allowed to frack anywhere and any time at will, like they would like to.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)No they don't, and even a nuke isn't going to trigger it. I'm glad to see that science illiteracy isn't limited to the US.
shawn703
(2,702 posts)Because he did!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)There is only one guy who could play that role and sadly he is no longer with us.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Larry Engels
(387 posts)Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)I thought we mostly had that cured.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)When the GOP try and sabotage nuke talks, and the idiots who wrote the letter got schooled on their own Constitution by the Iranians.
Russia sees our crazies as their chance to keep throwing lit matches till one catches fire.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)sakabatou
(42,134 posts)damyank913
(787 posts)...IF THEY COULD make Yellowstone erupt, They would be introducing so much ash into the atmosphere that the entire worlds food supplies would be affected. This does not exclude Mother Russia. Then again, Russia hasn't been known for giving a dam about the environment.