A Russian geopolitical analyst says the best way to attack the United States is to detonate nuclear weapons to trigger a supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park or along the San Andreas fault line on California's coast.
The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems based in Moscow, Konstantin Sivkov said in an article for a Russian trade newspaper on Wednesday, VPK News, that Russia needed to increase its military weapons and strategies against the "West" which was "moving to the borders or Russia".
He has a conspiracy theory that NATO - a political and military alliance which counts the US, UK, Canada and many countries in western Europe as members - was amassing strength against Russia and the only way to combat that problem was to attack America's vulnerabilities to ensure a "complete destruction of the enemy".
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Apparently this russki doesn't understand physics too well. The distance from the surface to the magma chamber at Yellowstone is measured in MILES. Chances of
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microscopic....and even if a crack that far down was created if the pressure in the magma chamber isn't sufficient it won't erupt. The energy involved in a supervolcano vs a nuclear warhead are simply of no comparison. Compared to Yellowstone a 5MT
warhead would be like the powder charge used in a kids cap gun.
And again...with the San Andreas....the energy required to trigger an EQ is huge.
And it would have to be released at a significant depth....at least a mile or more.
Surface bursts are simply of no consequences to the planet whatsoever....they only
harm the life on the surface.
Thanks for the info.
DeleteHe wouldn't be around to witness such an event. Unless, of course, Barry the Black is still around.
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