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A comment on Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto. Parent comment

Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by rdtsc on Sunday January 03, 2016 @03:14PM (#10832128)
> it will create a 1000 foot high nuclear tidal wave that will physically wipe out coastal cities and Naval installations, as well as pollute them with radioactive fallout."

That sounds unrealistic especially if it insunuates a device will wipe all all the East coast cities.

It seems anything they have will be able to wipe out all the stuff they want to wipe out just with ICBMs.

If this ever comes into play it is all over anyway.

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Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by ceejayoz on Monday January 04, 2016 @09:38AM (#10835794)
> That sounds unrealistic especially if it insunuates a device will wipe all all the East coast cities.

Well, they'd have to use more than one.

> It seems anything they have will be able to wipe out all the stuff they want to wipe out just with ICBMs.

The idea is that this sort of weapon is a response to US anti-ICBM systems, so Russia can maintain their MAD.

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