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Putin Sends Final Warning to America, Russia Has ‘Unstoppable’ Nukes—Here Are the Areas in the US Most Likely to Be Hit in a Nuclear Attack +Videos

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By Amber William  /  My Daily Informer

—Russian President Vladimir Putin announced new, supposedly unstoppable nuclear weapons that could hit the US in a matter of minutes.

—Putin may be overselling it, but Russia certainly has the nuclear-offensive capabilities to destroy much of the US, and there’s nothing the US can do to stop it.

—Yet the likely targets of a Russian nuclear strike would be counterintuitive, and places like New York and Los Angeles may be spared for more high-value targets in North Dakota or Montana.


Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had developed four new “unstoppable” nuclear systems devised specifically to render American missile defenses “useless” — and even played animations of launches toward the US.

The systems include a superfast underwater drone, a nuclear-powered “unlimited”-range cruise missile, a new intercontinental ballistic missile with several independent warheads, and a hypersonic missile to be fired from jets.

With most everything from the Kremlin, it’s best to take its claims with a grain of salt. But one thing is certain: In a full-on nuclear attack from Russia, the US has little chance to defend itself and millions would die almost instantly.

Since the Cold War, the US and Russia have drawn up plans on how to best wage nuclear war against each other; and while large population centers with huge cultural impact may seem like obvious choices, a smarter nuclear attack would focus on countering the enemy’s nuclear forces.

So although people in New York City or Los Angeles may see themselves as being in the center of the world, in terms of nuclear-target priorities, they’re not as important as states like North Dakota or Montana.

According to Stephen Schwartz, the author of “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940,” as the Cold War progressed and improvements in nuclear weapons and intelligence-collection technologies enabled greater precision in where those weapons were aimed, the emphasis in targeting shifted from cities to nuclear stockpiles and nuclear war-related infrastructure.

VIA :  Alex Lockie

“This map shows the essential points Russia would have to attack to wipe out the US’s nuclear forces, according to Schwartz:

Skye Gould/Business Insider

This map represents targets for an all-out attack on the US’s fixed nuclear infrastructure, weapons, and command-and-control centers, but even a massive strike like this wouldn’t guarantee anything.

“It’s exceedingly unlikely that such an attack would be fully successful,” Schwartz told Business Insider. “There’s an enormous amount of variables in pulling off an attack like this flawlessly, and it would have to be flawless. If even a handful of weapons escape, the stuff you missed will be coming back at you.”

Even if every single US intercontinental ballistic missile silo, stockpiled nuclear weapon, and nuclear-capable bomber were flattened, US nuclear submarines could — and would — retaliate.

According to Schwartz, at any given time, the US has four to five nuclear-armed submarines “on hard alert, in their patrol areas, awaiting orders for launch.”

Even high-ranking officials in the US military don’t know where the silent submarines are, and there’s no way Russia could chase them all down before they fired back, which Schwartz said could be done in as little as 5 to 15 minutes.

But a strike on a relatively sparsely populated area could still lead to death and destruction across the US, depending on how the wind blew. That’s because of fallout.”

Dangerous radioactive fallout zones shrink rapidly after a nuclear explosion.

Brooke Buddemeier/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The US has strategically positioned the bulk of its nuclear forces, which double as nuclear targets, far from population centers. But if you happen to live next to an ICBM silo, fear not.

There’s a “0.0% chance” that Russia could hope to survive an act of nuclear aggression against the US, according to Schwartz. So while we all live under a nuclear “sword of Damocles,” Schwartz added, people in big cities like New York and Los Angeles most likely shouldn’t worry about being struck by a nuclear weapon.

Russia’s State TV Instructing Russian Citizens To Start Prepping For The Armageddon!

Evidently, the Russians are being instructed to prepare for Armageddon.

Russia’s State TV is broadcasting instructions for survival in a bomb shelter.

Will you ever hear or see this on American mainstream news? No. Never. However I found it surreal to watch/listen to what the Russians are telling their citizens today (actually yesterday). Yes this is really happening.

 

For the next four and a half decades, military officers in the United States and the Soviet Union would create and tinker with plans to fight a NATO-Warsaw Pact war. For the United States, this meant seeking in vain to offset the Soviet Union’s numerical advantages without resorting to nuclear weapons early in a conflict.

Although successive U.S. administrations came into office vowing to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in America’s military doctrine, this proved impossible before the Reagan administration, when the revolution in precision-guided weaponry offered Washington a way to defeat the Soviet military juggernaut.

Although the Soviet Union’s specific war plans, like America’s, remains classified, historians have been able to more or less ascertain how the Soviet army would have fought by using archives released by former Warsaw Pact member states like Poland and Czechoslovakia.

These reveal that, while Stalin was alive and through the 1950s, the Warsaw Pact maintained an almost entirely defensive posture aimed at protecting member states from a Western invasion. Likely reflecting America’s massive nuclear superiority at the time, these war plans did not envision the use of nuclear weapons in any capacity.

It was only after Stalin died, and specifically in the 1960s, that the Soviet Union designed new war plans. These were decidedly offensive nature and envisioned a blitzkrieg-type assault that allowed the Warsaw Pact to conquer most of Western Europe in a matter of days. It amazingly sought to integrate the liberal use of nuclear weapons with the Warsaw Pact’s formidable conventional military might.

Specifically, the Soviet war planners (rightly) anticipated that the United States and its allies would resort to the massive use of nuclear weapons early in the conflict. As a result, they hoped to preempt their use in order to protect Soviet and Warsaw Pact territory.

Regardless, nuclear weapons were a central part of the Soviet Union’s strategy to conquer all of Western Europe. As War Is Boring has pointed out, on the Northern front alone, “Warsaw Pact plans called for 189 nuclear weapons: 177 missiles and 12 bombs ranging in yield from five kilotons—roughly a quarter the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima—to 500 kilotons.” Additional nuclear weapons would have been used in the Central and Southern fronts as well.

Just one day before Putin’s remarks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a UN conference that the US helps Europe prepare for nuclear strikes on Russia. “Non-nuclear states plan and take part in the US exercises and learn how to use the nuclear weapons,” he said, adding that the US having nuclear weapons in Europe “is not only a rudiment of the Cold War but an openly aggressive position.”

It’s widely believed the US has at least 20 nuclear weapons in Germany, but US officials consistently decline to confirm that. The US has also placed multiple missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, including in Romania, worrying Russia that Western powers threaten its territory. However, there is no indication America has plans to bomb Russia anytime soon.

But Russia certainly worries about America’s nuclear weapons, especially after the US released a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) in February. The Pentagon report details America’s desire to develop newer and smaller nuclear bombs, in part to make them more usable.

That, the administration’s argument goes, might deter further Russian aggression. Recall that Moscow actively works to destabilize Western democracies with sophisticated online campaigns to tilt elections toward Moscow-friendly leaders and political parties. It also conducts large-scale military exercises near NATO territory, threatening European countries in the Baltics, or even non-NATO counties like Moldova or Sweden. And Russia still retains control of Crimea, which it seized in 2014, and remains in Ukraine to this day.

Russia-watchers say Putin likely had the NPR in mind when delivering his speech. “I bet it was an indirect response to the NPR,” a senior Senate aide who focuses on defense tells me, but the main goal was “to bolster himself in front of Russia and respond to the US.”

So it looks like Putin chose to answer America’s desire for new weapons with his own weapons display. Now the question is: How much do Putin’s new weapons threaten the US and its allies?

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http://www.mydailyinformer.com/putin-just-said-russia-has-unstoppable-nukes-here-are-the-areas-in-the-us-most-likely-to-be-hit-in-a-nuclear-attack/

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    • AJ

      Oh Boy!

    • Man

      Bin is floowded with Those american patriots who have a manlove for Russia

      Seriously, IF this was a real threat…. you wouldn’t chear for russia

      • 2QIK4U

        Cheer

      • DISPENSER

        How about the leftovers from the cold war that still don’t realize Russia is neither the Soviet Union nor communist now?

        • Man

          you need to look up what patriotic means

    • 2QIK4U

      One thing you never thought about. IF RUSSIA were to launch it would most likely be a simultaneous Attack including CHINA and NTH KOREA Nukes backing up the Russians.

      • wheeties

        yup..and they are all aimed at nz and au–they are tired of beer can for brains talking shett all the time

    • Pink Slime

      He’s just an idiot megalomaniac ring thief. Russia has targets too. But will America be willing to fire back? Or will we become frightened and afraid to use our power? :cool:

    • Bob DD

      Time to stop this Nuke war sh*t. All of the nuke power plants would melt down and the Earth would be uninhabitable. Deep state/shadow Govt., globalists do you here this??? Forget the Military Industrial Complex making $ on war machines, talk PEACE like candidate Trump was doing.

    • truck driver

      Cat and mouse game to get something. Selfishness

    • jknbt

      this is serious, folks….it would take only ONE mistake by a colonel or sub captain to start WW3….or a rogue action…what’s more likely is that the Iranians will play a high stakes game of “let’s you and him fight” by staging a false flag operation in Syria that will get Russians killed on the ground. That’s a big red line for Putin. It almost happened with the reply given to the recent gas attack on civilians. It simply HAS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY when the President of Russia starts telling his people to stock the fallout shelters with goods like sugar, rice, and oatmeal that have a long shelf life.

      We are a lot closer to Armageddon and the Second Coming than anyone in the West realizes, especially the MSM….kinda scary…I wish these people would wake up.

      • IAMPEACE

        jknbt, you are correct. Putin did tell his people to prepare and in fact I still have a big dish and watch RT and Press TV
        almost daily. RT last week produced a lengthy guide on what steps to do to prepare for war: how to store food, water,
        medical supplies and types of shelters. However, here in the US the MSM has comedy shows instead of news. I grew
        up in a military family, 8th Air Force. What is important is to always be prepared and have a plan. If it never happens
        Thank GOD. If you are not prepared don’t expect to survive.

    • stonehillady

      Our news media would be out the door and in their bunkers in minutes as would our officials, they would not have the decency to even prepare us, because the sissy public would go bananas, this is not the 50′s, we had civil defense training, black and yellow markers directing you to safe spaces……not anymore. We even had bomb shelters, root cellars converted to shack you up for a while. If you do live in a city, I’d be going underground.

    • jknbt

      I would build a bomb shelter in my back yard, but there is not a place in North America that would be safe if the nukes start falling…this article has a lot of disinformation in it…the nukes have been scattered all over the US…they are not clustered in ND and Montana anymore…there are a lot of decommissioned air force bases out there in use as civilian commercial airports…you can be sure that each of them has a nice tight bunker in a secure area on the back lot that has some missiles in silos…the same for any active military base…
      Whoever wrote this based it on information available from about 1968….for example, he left out Dyess AFB which supports the B1 bombers….and Ft. Hood…Every army base or naval installation has nukes out in the back lot these days.
      also, a 15 KT bomb is considered a tactical weapon these days, for killing battalions, not cities…and the kill zone information is ludicrous…turn the number of kilotons into “miles radius” for an accurate picture of the death & destruction…for example, an 80 KT detonation will kill everyone in an 80 mile radius at the surface level. This includes civilians jamming up the freeways trying to get to grandma’s farm that has an inadequate root cell behind the barn.
      The Russians boast that they have a super “Satan” missile that can kill everyone and destroy all the cities in a state the size on NY.

      “YIKES”

    • Jerry

      I have a great idea. It is called peace. As a result of peace, the US saves trillions of dollars on worthless wars that do nothing but make the rich richer at the expense of other peoples lives. Think what both countries could do with trillions of dollars for their people. The best bargain in the world is PEACE. Make it happen and stop all the fighting like animals. Humans are better than this.

      • Takealook

        Sorry but the banksters despise Peace. No profit in Peace just as there is no profit
        in Health. It’s all about money. The government says you will be sick, poor, and at
        war. And apparently most Americans are unwilling to realize this or just don’t care.

    • Everette

      First I want to know why Schwartz reveled for all our enemies to know where our nukes were located ? Seems this jackass with a German name is an ass kissing NWO . The NWO set up Georgia Guide Stones in Georgia ( kill 6 1/2 billion people out of the 7 billion on planet earth to end up with 500 million ) . This idiot just gave away our chances to protect our selves should this be the only real power sources to take out nations . But its not ! The idiot dosent know we have rail guns that fire iron bolts at the speed of light and are accurate up to 100 miles taking out targets . Then we have lasers that can cut mountains in half . We have lasers mounted on our ships , airplanes and some on vehicles and also on our shore lines that can cut in half targeted missles . This light beam travels also at the speed of light . We have radio frequency beams that can break apart missles , the rod of god mounted in space holding iron missles that use kinetic energy like an asteroid falling from space . Project blue beam laser that used 2 beams to cut holes in the BP oil rig while being videoed by fishermen . This used to be on YouTube . So Nothing is every hopeless . Besides GOD in Ezekiel 38 and 39 tell us that when this war starts HE is going to step in and shake the crap out of the land . Mountains will crumble as will walls and buildings fall (Ezekiel 38:18-23 ) . The HE is going to call for a sword against the enemy were they will kill each other . It is at this time the Muslims will try to destroy Judea living in Israel and Israel living in America , Europe and Australia . GOD states HE will have compassion on Israel ( Ezekiel 39:22-29 ) because HE had drive them Into the world away from Judea for their sins ( this took place when Solomon was king ) . But now HE will bring them back . The enemy in Ezekiel 39:2 will be left with only a 6 th part of themselves . In Ezekiel 38:8 , 14 GOD tells us that it takes place in the later years or end times when Judea has been brought back to Israel by the sword and HE saying they shall dwell safely but their enemies shall not know it . The reason America is tied to Judea living in Israel is because we are Israel and Judea is our kinsmen . White type A blood types are Hebrews , Judea and Israel . The 10 lost tribes of Israel under Ephraim are in America , Europe and Austrlia .

      • I AM

        That is why the EMP will happen 1st, & the rest, as they say will be HIS-STORY to tell…

    • patann

      Watchman, What of The Night?

      The CIA 2015 Debate Over Syed Farook’s To Americans Cell Phone Privacy,
      http://2016theissueofblackbowls.blogspot.com/2016/03/righteously-dividing-enemy-www_30.html

      -Wouldn’t you say Putin, threats are beginning to build up like the yellowstone caldera? Americans believe in absolutes, if it not absolutely their country, their state, their city, their resident them and or their loved ones, then you’re absolutely taking out of the side of your neck! Bware, Trump is a Truexit, God will only bless escape, skyward and or southeast into exodus, Apb, The RAM,

      Watchman What Of The Night?

      The Nov, 4th 1974/5-2018, petro handlebars that’s staged to kill tens of millions US soil, no further delay, forewarn Jan. 26-29th, 2018, beware, Apb, http://thestonesurface2017.blogspot.com/2018/04/thus-saith-lord-tell-them-whether-they.html

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