In December 2014 I wrote a blog
‘Putin, Kim Jong Un and the Fake
Nuclear Threat’ - Russia
https://galinapop-russia.blogspot.com/.../blog-post_20.html
All written in this blog is still relevant. And
even more, because since then Russia has been going downhill all the time.
Below is a translation of my 2014
blog.
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Putin, Kim Jong Un and the Fake Nuclear Threat
Of all 9 countries that have nuclear weapons, only the Russian
Federation and North Korea threaten the world with their use. Their economies
are stagnating, and populations are shrinking (death rate is higher than birth
rate).
"Now that the hostile US policy of conquering our republic
under the pretext of fighting for human rights has become apparent, the idea of
turning
the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear-free zone no longer makes sense,” the Korean authorities said in a statement.
North Korea vows to double its military power.
The Russian Nuclear Weapons Revival website writes:
“Putin sees nuclear weapons as an invitation to the world's
highest table. When asked last week if Russia really deserved to be in the G-8,
the club of the world's leading industrial nations, Putin replied that Russia
was a major nuclear power and therefore impossible to ignore. Putin makes no
secret of his desire to see Russia great again - and since it is unlikely to be
among the richest countries in the world in the near future, part of his
strategy to achieve the above goal is to continue the nuclear game.”
Industry is not developing in Russia. If the industry
developed, Russia could enter the top 8 industrial countries through the front
door. But it seems to Putin that it is easier, rattling weapons, to enter
through the back. Thus, he uses oil money for armaments, propaganda, and
nuclear development.
But not everything is as simple as Putin says.
The Russian nuclear proliferation website writes:
Smart weapons are needed in the 21st century
“The state will not skimp on the rearmament of the army and navy.
In the first reading, the State Duma adopted the draft budget for 2015 and for
the planning period of 2016-2017. National defense spending will amount to
almost 3.3 trillion rubles. This is a third more than in 2014, Colonel-General
Viktor Zavarzin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Defense, clarified in
an interview with reporters.
...However, not only money is the main condition for
strengthening the country's defense capability.
...Further rearmament of the army depends on the rate of
development of science and the dynamic implementation of its achievements.
Since this task covers many aspects of life, to assess the success of its
implementation, a special integrating indicator has been adopted - the
"technological order".
...The Russian economy lives in the last century. Now the
share of the fourth order in it is more than 50% and the third order - more
than 30%. In the military-industrial complex, the most advanced part of our
economy, the share of the fifth order is only 10%, while in the entire US
economy the share of the fifth order is 60% and about 5% of the productive
forces are already in the sixth order. Russia simply did not grow up to so high
order.
... It is no
coincidence that the promising carrier rocket Angara will fly, like the famous
Korolev - Gagarin rocket, on a mixture of oxygen and kerosene. The Keldysh
Center and the Moscow Aviation Institute spend hundreds of millions of rubles
on R&D to create spacecraft for flights to other planets, but their
development is a space dead end, because they repeat what scientists in the USA
and Germany have abandoned."
Vladimir Putin at a
press conference in Moscow said:
“As you know, we have recently tested new ballistic weapons
systems....”
For these missile systems, according to Putin, "what is
an anti-missile defense system, what is not - they do not care," because
they "change the trajectory in course and altitude. And the missile
defense system is designed for ballistic missiles that can inflict strike,
moving along a ballistic trajectory". This rocket can carry a nuclear
weapon.
America is developing a missile defense system. The idea of this
system is as follows: when military equipment detects that a missile has been
launched towards their country, then an anti-missile is sent towards it, which
detonates the first missile in the air. This system has been successfully
applied in Israel.
This is how the Russian Nuclear Weapons Revival website
describes the nuclear warhead project.
“This warhead is launched into outer space by a conventional
ballistic missile. But instead of falling to Earth on a predictable trajectory,
it separates (from the launch vehicle) and maneuvers like a cruise missile when
it returns to the Earth’s atmosphere. This maneuvering, analysts say, confuses
the US missile defense system, which works on the principle of calculating the
trajectory of an incoming warhead and intercepts this warhead when it is aimed
at a target. Last year's tests showed that a prototype (Russian) warhead
maneuvered for the first time at a speed of 8M (M is Mach number, speed of
sound - translator's note), which makes it almost impossible to intercept and
destroy it. It will take several more years (and a lot of extra money) before a
new warhead is put into mass production. But Russian Defense Minister Sergei
Ivanov promised last December that a "new generation" of strategic
missiles will appear in Russia before the end of the current decade
anniversary."
The weight of an atomic bomb is several tons. The bomb thrown
on Hiroshima weighed 4.4 tons. Imagine what energy must be used to maneuver
such a weight at a speed equal to 8 speeds of sound. It seems fantastic!
However, "Russia certainly has the know-how to - at the
expense of time and money - make a maneuvering warhead work," says the
Russian Nuclear Resurrection website, and continues:
"... Putin's boastful statements are somewhat undermined
by the fact that a new warhead alone is not enough to create a new generation
nuclear arsenal" ... In addition, "delivery systems, both missiles
and submarines, are rapidly becoming obsolete. Of the six Russian strategic
nuclear missile submarines of the Typhoon type ... only one - the Dmitry Donskoi
- has actually been re-equipped and is in service. And another seven Delta-4
class submarines ... will also serve their deadline by the end of this decade.
So far, only two submarines are planned to be built to replace them. Russian
missiles are also rapidly becoming obsolete. The heavy Russian SS-18 and SS-19
strategic missiles ... are too old to be used, and therefore they are being
replaced by newer Topol-M missiles "at a rate of only 7 units per year.
... Washington can afford not to worry, because Putin's talk about nuclear
weapons, apparently, has more to do with an attempt to raise the prestige of a
hard-pressed military, rather than preparing for war with the United
States."
In addition, the idea of a
"maneuvering" rather than a directly flying rocket is an old one,
dating back to the 60s. Therefore, it is logical to assume that such a missile,
as well as a computer program for tracking a "maneuvering" missile,
is also being developed in the United States. I think that in this case the
United States has gone far ahead in its development, given the huge
technological gap between the United States and the Russian Federation.
So sleep well, dear readers. Nuclear war does not threaten us.
But, on the other hand, such a conclusion is true if Putin is
sane. If Putin, driven into a corner, says: "Damn it all" and orders
to blow up the nuclear arsenal right in Russia, so that the winds and oceans
will carry nuclear ash around the world and much of life die. But
most likely, this will not happen, because Putin's order will not be carried
out. In the chain of performers, from Putin to the minister, to the techies
involved in the actual launch of the rocket, there exist smart people.
Putin's dead-end policy
will lead to further impoverishment and extinction of the population, and in
the end - to the collapse of the Russian Empire.
Now food prices are rising in Russia. Putin lowered the price
of vodka. If there is no money for food, then do not think about who is to
blame and how it can be fixed, drink and listen to Putin's toxic propaganda on
TV. But such a policy cannot continue for long.
You can read about the standard of living of citizens, the
health of the nation and where the money goes on the website:
2014. PUTIN. IN
FIGURES AND FACTS
