What’s With All The Superweapons?

Because apparently the world isn’t complex and scary enough, the major powers have decided to unveil a bunch of ‘superweapons’ capable of, um, unique kinds of mayhem:
Russia reveals giant nuclear torpedo in state TV ‘leak’ The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo – called ‘Status-6′ – should not have appeared on Russian TV news. The leak happened during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin meeting military chiefs in the city of Sochi. One general was seen studying a diagram of the ‘devastating’ torpedo system.
Launched by a submarine, it would create ‘wide areas of radioactive contamination’, the document says. The ‘oceanic multi-purpose Status-6 system’ is designed to ‘destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country’s territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time’, the document says.
According to state-run Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the destructive power attributed to the new torpedo’s warhead would fit the description of a cobalt bomb. That would be a type of thermonuclear warhead with a layer of cobalt-59, which on detonation would be transmuted into highly radioactive cobalt-60 with a half-life longer than five years.
A warhead of up to 100 megatons could produce a tsunami up to 500m (1,650ft) high, wiping out all living things 1,500km (930 miles) deep inside US territory – Konstantin Sivkov, Russian Geopolitical Academy. Such a weapon would guarantee ‘that everything living will be killed’, the paper said – there would not even be any survivors in bunkers.
‘It’s true some secret data got into the shot, therefore it was subsequently deleted,’ said Mr Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. ‘In future we will undoubtedly take preventive measures so this does not happen again.’

This post was published at DollarCollapse on November 30, 2015.