Russia's submarine armed with the ultimate "doomsday weapon" has vanished..According to NATO sources, the state-of-the-art Belgorod sub has silently slipped away from its berth at its White Sea Arctic base..As in the 1990 American submarine spy thriller, The Hunt For Red October, the Russians now claim to have a weapon, not to win wars, but to end wars..But this time, it is highly doubtful there is a Russian Captain Ramius, who, struck by conscience and the death of his wife, decides to end the madness and defect, daring the Russian navy to catch him — hence, a cool film with many great performances and twists and turns.. Connery in The Hunt For Red OctoberConnery in The Hunt For Red October .But this is no Hollywood movie..The Belgorod houses a weapon so evil, you would think Satan himself had a hand in designing it..But before we go there, let's go back to Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born physicist and father of the American H-bomb..It was thanks to Teller the original discoveries were made that led to the bomb. He also pushed hard to develop the weapon, establishing his own lab, the Lawrence Livermore near San Francisco..In doing so, he quickly became the eminent grise behind one of America's key weapons laboratories..But one of his projects, which never left the drawing board, was in fact, a doomsday weapon..It was called "Backyard," for the basic reason, you could leave it in the backyard, and just detonate it. You did not have to deliver it anywhere..Reportedly rated at an insane 1,000 megatons, it had the power to end life on the planet with its radiation cloud..Thankfully cooler heads prevailed, and it never left Teller's blackboard — despite his urgings to build it..So let it be known, the Russians weren't the first..What is scaring the daylights out of the Pentagon, is that the Belgorod houses the "Poseidon” weapons system, a nuclear weapon-carrying drone that Russia claims has the capability to trigger a giant 1,600-ft. “radioactive tsunami.”.But before you lose any sleep over this weapon and the Russian madman who controls it, Mr. Vladimir Putin, remember, this is just a claim..The weapon has never been tested, nor has it been actually activated in Russia's nuclear submarine fleet.. BelgorodBelgorod .Also keep in mind NATO is saying one thing — but like a Comanche warrior being pursued, leaving a rock arrow to let his tribe know he's going the opposite way — the Belgorod may already be on the screen of advanced sonars..One thing is for sure, you can bet your boots they're chasing this evil monster, and they have the tech to do it..The bad news? This Poseidon weapon is truly evil, but brilliant in design..Unlike the submarine-launched nuclear missiles both Russia and the United States maintain as a part of their nuclear triads, the Status-6 (sometimes called “Poseidon” or by its NATO designation of “Kanyon”) is actually a submersible drone, Sandboxx online reported..Once deployed by a Russian Navy submarine, the drone can travel autonomously toward its target, covering more than 5,400 miles at depths as low as 3,300 feet. Once it finds its target, the Status-6 simply parks and waits for the command to detonate..Now comes the not so fun part.. A Russian submarine.A Russian submarine. .Onboard this submersible drone is an absolutely massive warhead — with some claims saying it carries the same nuclear yield as the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, Sandboxx reported..Sometimes known as "Satan II," the RS-28 has been in development since 2014, and was famously described as “capable of wiping out parts of the earth the size of Texas or France.”.The missile has a range of 6,385 miles and carries a warhead jam-packed with Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles (MIRV) that boast a combined destructive yield of 50 megatons..In other words, the RS-28 Sarmat carries a destructive yield greater than 35 times that of America's Minuteman III..America’s most powerful nuclear bomb in service, the B83, also boasts just a 1.2 megaton yield, and even the most powerful nuclear weapon in American history, the 9 megaton B53, rings in at less than 1/5 the yield of the mighty Sarmat..Even scarier? Some claim the Poseidon houses a greater nuclear weapon, twice the size of the Sarmat..That would make it two times more powerful than the largest nuclear weapon ever even tested, Russia's infamous Tsar Bomba..The latter was detonated above cape Sukhoy Nos of Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, on October 30, 1961..That explosion was so great, a secret US reconnaissance aircraft named Speed Light Alpha monitored the blast, coming close enough to have its anti-radiation paint scorched..Windows cracked as far away as Finland. Sensors detected the blast wave circling the globe three times. The mushroom cloud from the blast rose more than 60 km into the atmosphere, seven times the height of Mount Everest.. This is what a single 1.85 megaton detonation looks like.This is what a single 1.85 megaton detonation looks like. .Getting back to the Poseidon — a detonation of that magnitude would not only destroy and irradiate a massive area, its positioning under water would result in a circular radioactive tsunami that would reach far further inland than the blast itself..However, in saying that, both Russia and the United States are aware the launch of a single nuclear weapon is all it takes to start a cascade of retaliatory strikes that, once begun, will usher in a nuclear apocalypse..When the result is the end of the world, it really doesn’t matter how big that first explosion might be. It really doesn't..Putin’s "super weapons' may be good for a bit of geopolitical theatre, but strategically they change nearly nothing about the nuclear deterrence mission or the comparative military standing of each nation..Another factor is the plutonium in Putin's so-called tactical or low-yield nukes, are only good for 10 years. According to intelligence sources, they have not been serviced or replaced in 15 years, creating yet another possible flaw in Russia's much vaunted military forces..On top of that, The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, came out this week claiming that Russia's military couldn't possibly operate on a nuclear battlefield in its current state, despite escalating rhetoric about nuclear weapons..Its troops, that are currently a "chaotic agglomeration" of tired soldiers, hastily mobilized reservists, and mercenaries, "could not function in a nuclear environment," the think tank said..The use of Russian tactical nuclear weapons would render areas impassable and therefore prevent Russian advances, according to the think tank..In other words, game, set and match for the Ukraine.. The Poseidon doomsday weapon.The Poseidon doomsday weapon.
