{"id":87676,"date":"2019-02-12T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-real-purpose-of-russias-100-megaton-underwater-nuclear-doomsday-device"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:02:59","slug":"the-real-purpose-of-russias-100-megaton-underwater-nuclear-doomsday-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-real-purpose-of-russias-100-megaton-underwater-nuclear-doomsday-device","title":{"rendered":"The real purpose of Russia\u2019s 100-megaton underwater nuclear doomsday device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-real-purpose-of-russias-100-megaton-underwater-nuclear-doomsday-device.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>Russia is said to have built a new 100-megaton underwater nuclear doomsday device, and it has threatened the US with it.<\/li>\n<li>The device goes beyond traditional ideas of nuclear warfighting and poses a direct threat to the future of humanity or life on Earth.<\/li>\n<li>Nobody has ever built a weapon like this before, because there\u2019s almost no military utility in so badly destroying the world.<\/li>\n<li>But an expert on nuclear strategy told Business Insider the weapon might have a larger role in helping Russian President Vladimir Putin break down NATO with the threat of nuclear destruction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since 2015, when images of a Russian nuclear torpedo first leaked on state television, the world has asked itself why Moscow would build a weapon that could end all life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>While all nuclear weapons can kill thousands in the blink of an eye and leave radiation poisoning the environment for years to come, Russia\u2019s new doomsday device, <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-shows-off-a-nuclear-doomsday-torpedo-that-the-us-cant-stop-2018-7 > called \u201cPoseidon,\u201d<\/a> takes steps to maximize this effect.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-real-purpose-of-russias-poseidon-nuclear-doomsday-device-2019-2\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-real-purpose-of-russias-...2019&#45;2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is said to have built a new 100-megaton underwater nuclear doomsday device, and it has threatened the US with it. The device goes beyond traditional ideas of nuclear warfighting and poses a direct threat to the future of humanity or life on Earth. Nobody has ever built a weapon like this before, because there\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}