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originally posted by: Urantia1111
But aside from all that, is it even possible to trigger a volcano with a bomb?
Is it hysterical to prepare for total war with Russia? Or is it naive not to? (Slate.com))
Vladimir Zhirinovsky—the Russian member of parliament and court jester, who sometimes says things that those in power cannot—argued on television that Russia should use nuclear weapons to bomb Poland and the Baltic countries—“dwarf states,” he called them—and show the West who really holds power in Europe: “Nothing threatens America, it’s far away. But Eastern European countries will place themselves under the threat of total annihilation,” he declared. Vladimir Putin indulges these comments: Zhirinovsky’s statements are not official policy, the Russian president says, but he always “gets the party going.”
originally posted by: antar
WEll there are Russian weapons of Mass destruction that have the devastating effects of a major Nuclear bomb without the radiation.
Suck in the total energy and then blast back with the highest level of hurricane force winds essentially wiping the slate clean, the rest of the country would be easy to take down and out.
The most wide reaching effect of a Yellowstone eruption would be much colder weather.
Volcanoes can inject sulphur gas into the upper atmosphere, forming sulphuric acid aerosols that rapidly spread around the globe. Scientists believe sulphuric aerosols are the main cause of climatic cooling after an eruption.
originally posted by: Urantia1111
a reply to: Telos
Ok from a humanistic standpoint, appalling. From a military strategy perspective, genius. But aside from all that, is it even possible to trigger a volcano with a bomb? Is this a realistic possibility or is the guy simply talking out of his ass in fantasy land?
As president, Reagan fulfilled that pledge and approximately a thousand weapons were constructed. But criticism from European allies kept the weapons from being deployed across Europe.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism as we knew it, the Bush administration moved to dismantle all of our tactical nuclear weapons, including the Reagan stockpile of neutron bombs. In Cohen's mind, America was brought back to Square One. Without tactical weapons like the neutron bomb, America would be left with two choices if an enemy was winning a conventional war: surrender, or unleash the holocaust of strategic nuclear weapons.
Other nation's haven't been afflicted by the U.S. blindness regarding neutron bombs. According to Cohen:
Evidence exists that China has neutron bombs stockpiled, and that the United States gave the Chinese the technology to build them.
Russia has a large quantity of such weapons, as well as the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Israel has hundreds of neutron weapons. The neutron bombs would allow Israel to stop advancing Arab armies and tank columns - even one on Israeli soil - without permanently contaminating the land.
South Africa, which constructed a cache of neutron weapons before the end of white rule, claimed it dismantled those weapons before handing over power to the Nelson Mandela government. Cohen, however, claims to have it on good authority that white military leaders still control the secret stockpile as "an insurance policy."
I'm tired of this psychopaths, criminals, sadistic maniacs who are in position of power. They don't own Earth, they don't own humanity. They can go all to hell. We have to take our planet back from lunatics.
originally posted by: SubTruth
a reply to: Telos
Look at the bigger picture.......Russians eat this kind of stuff up and want more of it. Americans and 1st world populations here propaganda like this and it is concerning and almost laughable.
Think about it this is a window into the Russian society......It looks pretty sad.