Humans continue to devise innovative ways to kill one another. Bullets simply will not suffice in modern warfare. Moscow has developed nuclear torpedo missiles that have the ability to drown entire cities through 1,600-foot-high radioactive tsunamis.
Technology of this nature has never been developed or utilized. “For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said, calling the test a “huge success.”
Named after the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon is far more powerful than the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile. Secrecy surrounds the details of the Poseidon, but reports believe that it can carry a 2 megaton warhead. For reference, such a weapon is 150 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.
Russia attempted to test this technology in 2022 but failed. Moscow began developing this technology in 2018 after the US pulled out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and began expanding its NATO stronghold across the globe.
A nuclear tsunami would not only flood entire coastal cities, but it would create long-lasting, forever contamination, hence being dubbed a “flying Chernobyl.” The radioactive fallout would be unimaginable. Large areas would be uninhabitable for generations and there is absolutely no way to undo the damage. Casualties could reach several million if detonated near a densely populated coastal city. Death would be immediate for most and slow and prolonged for those exposed to the radiation.
A 1,600-foot tsunami would be one of the largest in modern history. In comparison, the 2011 tsunamis triggered by an earthquake in Japan reached 43 feet. The 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami in Alaska, the highest on record, reached 1,720 feet and was triggered by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake when 30 million cubic meters of rock slid into the Lituya Bay. The tsunami destroyed 1.5 square miles of land and reached elevations above 700 feet. Luckily, it was a relatively isolated area, but the landscape and ecosystem have been permanently altered. Again, that tsunami was merely a natural event, not caused by a nuclear weapon.
I urge anyone willing to listen to read the Peace Proposal—destruction from modern warfare is unimaginable and entirely preventable if those in power agree to peace.