Clandestine’s Newsletter : Putin’s Address: Approaching the Precipice. An excellent breakdown of what Putin REALLY said.
(bioclandestine.substack.com)
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I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this further - the US and Russia each posses (by all accounts) nuclear weapons capable of erasing all human life on this Earth, multiple times over.
What exactly do that purportedly they have that is worse than that?
There were the rumors of a Russian weapon that could destroy an entire country (or was it continent?)
It's a scary thought. Nuclear weapons have limitations, as in a blast radius and a threat of retaliation. It's feasible for nuclear weapons to erase all life, but not safely for the ones who use them.
Imagine coming toe to toe with a country that could feasibly fire tens, or hundreds of payloads that each could wipe out a country if one hits.
It'd be like playing missile command late stages on 60x speed with an automatic fail condition if even one gets through.
There is of course no proof that any of this was any more than just posturing...but also who knows.
You know that it would only take approximately 30 hydrogen bombs to kill everyone in the US and Russia has over 4,000, right? Is that what you are thinking of?
I saved this a while ago (pdf download). I thought I saved other links too, but can't find them right now. With some digging you'll find material out there on the advancement of russian research into electromagnetic theories and weapons.
All of those have to hit. Also, bombs require aircraft to get into our airspace, which is not very easy. Missiles don't require any loss of life, and if the payload of this magnitude exists only a SINGLE ONE would need to succeed in order to wipe out the country.
It's a big difference between a bomb and missile, first of all, and it's even further of a difference between a designed payload (Tsar Bomba 100Mt) and the tested payload (50t).
Also, it would take many more than 30 Mt Tsar Bombas to kill everyone in the United States. Even the max designed of 100Mt.
The 256 lives you get in Missile Command once you hit 800,000 pts always helps.
That’s not real life, though…
I've studied the subject of nuclear combat for professional purposes (strategic defense engineering). A nuclear war would be very unpleasant, but there is no possibility of it "erasing all human life on this Earth" even once. After a certain point, you run out of targets.