Russian analyst urges nuclear attack on Yellowstone National Park and San Andreas fault line
The Bear shows claws: A Russian geopolitics analyst says Yellowstone National Park would be a good target for nuclear attack
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.
He said the Russian geography on the other hand would protect it from a tsunami or a volcano attack. Few people live on the coast in Russia and Siberia which rests on basalt would withstand similar attacks.
Mr Sivkov, who spoke at the 2013 Moscow Economic Forum, said by 2020 to 2025 Russia would have amassed "asymmetric weapons" in its arsenal for the attack.
"The situation for us today is comparably worse than half a century ago," he said.
"The weakened economic potential in Russia, the loss of the 'spiritual core of what was the communist idea', and the lack of large-scale community allies in Europe such as the Warsaw Pact, Russia simply cannot compete against the NATO and its allies."
In December last year, the vocal military strategist told Russian newspaper, Pravda.ru that there is a "developing standoff between Russia and the West" and the US's ultimate goal was to "destroy Russia".
Mr Sivkov accused American politicians of committing several crimes including causing the deaths of 1,200,000 people in Iraq.
He believed
the only way for the "American elite" to be held accountable was for its
military forces to be destroyed.
"American politicians have committed a variety of crimes. Will anyone be held accountable for those crimes? What about the international law, the UN and other organisations? Are they doing anything?" he asked.
Mr Sivkov told Pravda that the idea of the US preparing for a serious war against Russia using cruise missiles was plausible given that it had already launched a thousand missiles in Yugoslavia and Iraq.
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Theses next few lines is a portion of the article that was taken from the original Russian source which is listed at end of this article and translated.
First of all, Russia is on the Eurasian continent, where the basic, fundamental part of its territory, on which is placed a large part of the population away from the ocean and sea spaces. The average altitude almost guarantees protection against flooding even when the catastrophic scale phenomena, accompanied by a powerful tsunami (mega-tsunami).
A different picture in the United States. In coastal areas, with a slight excess above sea level, is the bulk of the population - more than 80 percent. It also placed the country's main production facilities. Even relatively weak tsunami height of several tens of meters, can lead to disastrous consequences for the United States. This is very clearly demonstrated Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Nuclear riot
New Orleans, flooded by Hurricane Katrina, and now, 10 years later, feeling the effects of the cataclysm. Photo: wikimedia.orgAnother feature of geophysical Russia is that the main part of its territory in Siberia resting on thick (several kilometers) layers of basalt. It is assumed that these platforms formed by the eruption of supervolcano, which occurred about a quarter of a billion years ago.
Therefore strikes, even extremely powerful, will not lead to catastrophic geophysical consequences.
What's in the US? First of all, attention is drawn to Yellowstone National Park, located in the caldera of the same name supervolcano, which, according to geologists, close to the period of its activation, which occurs at a frequency of 600 thousand years. About as long ago there was its last eruption. The power of this supervolcano several orders of magnitude weaker than the Siberian, so it has not led to the eruption of mass extinction of living creatures on the planet as a whole, but for the Americas this eruption was undoubtedly disastrous.
Geologists believe that the Yellowstone supervolcano could explode at any moment. Signs of growing its 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. All of its territory is covered with a thick (several meters or tens of meters) layer of ash.
Another vulnerable area of the United States from the geophysical point of view, is the San Andreas - the break length of 1300 kilometers between the Pacific and North American plates. It passes along the coast of the territory of the State of California, somewhere on land and partly under water. Are parallel to the faults of the San Gabriel and San Hosinto. This is an area of geophysical instability generating earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.5 on the Richter scale. Impact powerful enough nuclear weapon can trigger catastrophic events that can completely destroy the infrastructure of the United States on the Pacific coast-scale tsunami.
Finally we must not forget about the Atlantic and Pacific transform faults. Lying parallel to the shoreline, respectively east and west coasts of the US, they can be a source of major tsunami that will cause catastrophic damage to a considerable depth from the coast.
Detonator for disaster
The United States from the geophysical point of view, is very vulnerable. It remains to determine the means by which you can initiate such a large-scale geophysical processes.
Let us turn to history. In 1961, on the northern tip of the New Earth at an altitude of more than five thousand meters was blown up the largest in the history of thermonuclear warheads. From the known estimates - 58 Mm. But Western experts have come to the conclusion that it was not apparent power, since a number of features in the Super was not a shell of uranium-238, the ability to increase the explosive power of at least one and a half to two times, that is, more than 100 Mt. Ammunition is in the weight and size characteristics of the 16-ton bomb that was dropped from the Tu-95. Today munition such capacity, according to researchers from the nuclear center in Sarov, Russia and leading expert in the field of Doctor of Technical Sciences Igor Ostretsov actually accomplish within 5-7 tons. That is, it is easy to "fit" in weight and size characteristics of heavy missiles (throw-weight "Satan" - about 8 tons). It is lifting it and satellites into orbit today output.Limitations on the power of individual ammunition existing treaties parity in nuclear arsenals are not imposed. In them we are talking only about the numbers. But megaoruzhiya ammunition requires a bit.
Day after tomorrow
Guaranteed source of the catastrophic geophysical processes may be primarily a blow to Yellowstone supervolcano. Even a single ground explosions 5-7-ton ammunition initiates powerful eruption.
As a result, the US will cease to exist, though for the rest of the world, the effects will be catastrophic. At least likely to suffer Russia - due to the distance from the eruption site, the size of the territory and location. Also, the damage will be relatively small country located on the opposite of the US parts of the globe. But in any case the eruption, stress would be a disaster for the whole of civilization. But then there is such a weapon. It has the possibility of its application should stop all thought of aggression against Russia.
Another option megaudara - initiation of giant tsunami. This idea of Andrei Sakharov. The point is to blow up some ammunition in reference points along the Atlantic and Pacific transform faults (within 3-4 each) at a depth of six to eight kilometers. As a result, according to the calculations of Sakharov and other scientists formed wave, which is off the coast of the United States will reach a height of 400-500 meters or more. Collapsed on the mainland, it will wash away all at a distance of over 500 kilometers.
If explosions produce at great depths, near the bottom, where the crust in places most docking plate is thin, it can be locally destroyed, and the magma comes into contact with ocean water, repeatedly reinforce the force of the explosion. In this case, the height of the tsunami will reach more than a mile, and the zone of destruction exceeds 1,500 kilometers from the coast.
This will only "clean" weapons - nuclear winter will not come, because they do not form a gigantic dust clouds and water vapor will fall to the ground as a monstrous radioactive showers near its formation, that is, the same US.
Such an attack is definitely initiates tectonic activity throughout the region, including, quite possibly, the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano and. Backward wave will wash Europe. That is the whole NATO. Monstrous will cataclysm. But this asymmetric threat last frontier - not some regions of Russia, and not the whole of Western civilization. To catastrophic geophysical consequences will undermine even one powerful ammunition in the area of the San Andreas Fault, San Gabriel or San Hosinto.
Apocalypse - simply and inexpensively
The above scenario suggests that the required amount of superboepripasov as asymmetric weapons is very small - about a dozen. This creates favorable conditions for their use guaranteed in accordance with the requirements of the asymmetric arms, which are listed above.
Delivery of ammunition to the destination can be achieved in different ways. First of all - on several one-piece heavy-BR, which, starting in conjunction with rockets security guaranteed to be able to overcome all possible, even in the distant future missile defense system. A small number of special mine PU easy enough to provide a reliable defense system, built on force protection, and on the principle of secrecy. This missile can be developed for strategic submarines of the "Typhoon" (Project 941). Their missile silos are designed for 96-ton P-39, which allows "with reserve" post modern heavy rocket having the desired throw-weight. One such ship enough to provide asymmetric deterrence.
Superboepripasy and integrated with advanced hypersonic missiles applicable submarine or land-based PU. Megazaryady also can be pre secretly put in reference points on the underlying positions with warships disguised as civilian vessels, ensuring the possibility of bringing them up in a period of threat to the explosion of the team using the combined system of communication providing a guaranteed supply of the signal. After stabilization of ammunition removed by special courts.
Time to develop and establish the required release submunitions caliber, according to experts, can be from 5-6 to 10-12 years. About the same amount of time required to develop and produce the required number of carriers. That is asymmetric mega-weapons may appear in Russia in the next 10 years. His appearance will eliminate any threat of large-scale war against our country, even in the absolute superiority of the enemy in conventional weapons systems.Details: http://vpk-news.ru/articles/24405
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