The Poseidon 2M39 torpedo would sneak along the ocean floor before detonating a nuke.
Russia appears to have developed a nuclear weapon capable of sneaking along the bottom of the sea and detonating along the coastline to flood the area with what one official described as "radioactive tsunamis.", as the radioactive waves could potentially devastate coastal cities and render huge portions of land uninhabitable for long periods of time.
Christopher A Ford, a former assistant secretary of state for International Security and Non-Proliferation, toldlast year that the horrifying weapon is designed to "inundate U.S. coastal cities with radioactive tsunamis."reports, but was considered by experts outside of Russia to be a "paper tiger" weapon, or a scary-sounding-but-ineffectual piece of technology meant to add gravitas to treaty negotiations instead of actually being used.
But now it seems that Russia is moving forward with Poseidon tests — as well as those for other high-tech weapons"It is absolutely a project that will be used to scare, as a negotiation card in the future, perhaps in arms control talks," Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies international relations professor Katarzyna Zysk toldA bomb that can trigger already-deadly tsunamis made of dangerously radioactive water in major cities is, objectively, terrifying.
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