After Putin's warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in U.S.
Source: Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state television has listed U.S. military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike, and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes.
The report, unusual even by the sometimes bellicose standards of Russian state TV, was broadcast on Sunday evening, days after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States wanted one....
In the Sunday evening broadcast, Dmitry Kiselyov, presenter of Russias main weekly TV news show Vesti Nedeli, showed a map of the United States and identified several targets he said Moscow would want to hit in the event of a nuclear war.
The targets, which Kiselyov described as U.S. presidential or military command centers, also included Fort Ritchie, a military training center in Maryland closed in 1998, McClellan, a U.S. Air Force base in California closed in 2001, and Jim Creek, a naval communications base in Washington state....
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)this kind of nuclear US target rhetoric fits in with putin's various agendas?
ck4829
(35,034 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)the trump as putin pawn thing.
That won't work. Morning Joe just characterized the Mueller Report status 'not as the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning'!
[Great post you made and cited above. Well worth reading. Thank you.]
Botany
(70,433 posts)... /GOP Stooges/Coup. You don't think Mueller issuing his report wort would make Trump/Putin
want to change the subject?
Putin has been working the long game w/Trump for years now. Russian money was behind "the Apprentice"
Trump's phony reality TV Show to convince a certain % of Americans (the dumb ones) that Trump was a
some kind of business genius instead of a failure.
A Trident Sub ..... 12 ICBMs each of which can carry 3 or 5 independently targeted nuclear warheads.
One of these alone is enough to end civilization on earth. This is pure gas lighting.
marble falls
(56,974 posts)carried sixteen with MIRV warheads.
Our Polaris MIRV's had three to ten warheads. I assume Trident II's do, too.
There 18 Ohio class subs, 14 armed with ICBMs. There are also a good number of British subs carrying 8 Trident II missiles.
Botany
(70,433 posts)Thanx for the knowledge.
marble falls
(56,974 posts)marble falls
(56,974 posts)Treaties with the Russians over nuclear weapons means that right now only 20 of the tubes on an Ohio class sub actually has a missile. But Trump is tossing these agreements out the window.
If it scares you, think how it scares me.
Botany
(70,433 posts)20 missiles and each missile carries 5 independently targeted H-bombs ...
that is 100 H bombs for Russia which would end their civilization and the
fall out would kill all of Manchuria, Japan and Korea too.
BTW all those radionuclides and toxins would get into the oceans and
then kill off the phtyoplankton that makes our world's O2 and without
O2 people can't live and don't get me started about growing food crops
in the soil laced with radio active debris ...
This stuff from Russia is Putin blowing smoke in order to give cover
to Trump/Russia's election crimes.
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)but the American in me want to put a tomahawk up Putin's ass right now...
These fuckers are just flaunting the fact that one of their own is the "President" and rubbing our noses in it. It's infuriating
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)Thats it. No target list. No announcement. Just place some there.
Your move Pooty Poot.
marble falls
(56,974 posts)nuclear missiles in Turkey PRIOR to the Russian missiles showing up in Cuba.
Playing dares with nuclear weapons is dumb shit.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Just as we live under that very same threat. Putin's networks announces the blatantly obvious and makes him look more pathetic in the process.