CARL, I agree. That ridiculous set piece from Putin added nothing; we don’t have a working missile defense system now, never have had, so pretty much any old ICBM is going to get through.
Even more frightening is the 100-megaton torpedo Russia claims to have. Dump that into the Atlantic Ocean, and the entire East Coast would probably be destroyed in the resultant tsunami, plus it supposedly produces a huge amount of radiation. Instant extinction of all kinds of species in the Atlantic, and one off each coast would probably eliminate the U.S. as a coherent entity entirely. Even if it didn’t, the ecological consequences are beyond horrific.
CARL, I agree. That ridiculous set piece from Putin added nothing; we don’t have a working missile defense system now, never have had, so pretty much any old ICBM is going to get through.
Even more frightening is the 100-megaton torpedo Russia claims to have. Dump that into the Atlantic Ocean, and the entire East Coast would probably be destroyed in the resultant tsunami, plus it supposedly produces a huge amount of radiation. Instant extinction of all kinds of species in the Atlantic, and one off each coast would probably eliminate the U.S. as a coherent entity entirely. Even if it didn’t, the ecological consequences are beyond horrific.