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NATO has warned all its member states that the “the apocalypse weapon is on the move“. The K-329 Belgorod nuclear submarine carries the powerful “Poseidon” nuclear missile that can fire a projectile 10,000 kilometers underwater, causing a radioactive tsunami.
According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the Atlantic alliance fears that the submarine may be preparing to test this violent torpedowhen it emerged in the Arctic Sea, after it was alleged that it might be involved in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.
With a length of 184 meters and a beam of 15 meters, the submarine can travel up to 60 kilometers per hour underwater, resists up to 120 days without surfacing and carries the powerful weapon that bears the name of the God of the sea.
“It is a completely new weapon that could force Western navies to change their planning,” expert HISutton told the Italian newspaper.
The Poseidon was presented in 2018 by Russia as an attempt to outdo itself militarily, and is a 24-meter projectile capable of lifting a two megaton nuclear wave.
For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, top leaders of the Moscow government continue to make nuclear threats. Washington authorities have begun to design all possible scenarios in the event that President Vladimir Putin decides to use this type of weapon to regain respect for power and compensate for the failures of Russian troops on Ukrainian soil, indicates The Washington Post .
Moscow announced the withdrawal of troops from the city of Lyman
Last Friday, tactical nuclear weapons were once again present in the Russian president’s speech, which he reinforced again”that will use all available means” to defend its territory, especially at a stage of the conflict in which it has already managed to annex four provinces in eastern Ukraine.
In addition, Putin reminded all listeners of one of the world’s greatest catastrophes, referring to President Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, 77 years ago, to create a precedent, develops the American newspaper.
Despite the frequency of violent speeches, US officials still believe that the likelihood of Putin using nuclear weapons is low. At the US level, this strategy would not be conducive to Russian diplomacy, as recent Pentagon analysis suggested the military benefits would be few and an angry international response would destabilize powers on their side. like chinawhose support Russia needs, details the same source mentioned above.
However, some Russian analysts have suggested exploding one of these weapons in an isolated location like the Black Sea, as a show of power, or even hitting a Ukrainian base, The Washington Post described.
These hypotheses and threats are exactly the phase of history that the vast majority of Americans and Russians did not want to see repeated, thinking that it ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Red Square is filled with music and Russian flags. The annexation of the Ukrainian regions was celebrated in Moscow
Source: Observadora
