![]() However, other experts disagree with this figure: " simply insane-that would be the biggest warhead ever deployed", David Hambling, a technology journalist specializing in defence, told EuroNews.next. This figure-about seven thousand times more than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima-matches that given by Russian TV anchor Kiselyov. ![]() The yield of Poseidon may be up to 100 megatons, Shaun Burnie, a senior nuclear specialist at Greenpeace, told Newsweek in 2022. " wouldn't have the same global reach as a large-scale conflict in cities, unless of course it triggered a larger geo-political conflict fought on land." and Russia during mid-century was because they were all detonated above the desert or ocean, intentionally away from cities which could burn." "Note, the reason there was no 'nuclear winter' following the myriad bomb-tests conducted by the U.S. "While a 'Nuclear Ocean Swell' sounds plenty horrifying, it would be distinct from an on-land detonation in that there would be no fire storms to loft soot into the stratosphere and thus no climate impact," Tyler Rohr, a chemical oceanographer and biogeochemical modeller at the University of Tasmania in Australia, told Newsweek. Poseidon can also be fitted with a conventional warhead, according to a Congressional Research Service report from last year, which said the system may not be deployed until 2027. Poseidon, if it is ever deployed, would likely be less destructive to human life than a land-based nuclear bomb, however, due to the differences between the atmosphere and the ocean in terms of fallout. The blast of the bomb would also have major effects on ecosystems: seabed invertebrates have been found to be significantly disturbed by natural tsunamis, while on land, tsunamis uproot trees, destroy bird nesting sites, cause land animals to drown, and wash pollution back into the sea that may poison a range of marine life. Additionally, many birds had malformed sperm, with nearly 40 percent of male birds being completely sterile in the most radioactive areas. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, birds and mammals were found to have developed cataracts in their eyes and smaller brains. Radioactive fallout has been previously found to have a big impact on wildlife in the vicinity. ![]() Collectively, the nuclear tests conducted in and around Bikini Atoll have had long term health and environmental impacts." But we know from our own government's testing of nuclear weapons underground that there can be major consequences for marine and human life. "Of course, the Poseidon torpedo is not the same as the bomb in the Baker test, so we can't say that the consequences would be the same. He says his country's Poseidon nuclear underwater drone could cause a tsunami that would "plunge the British Isles into the depths of the sea" and turn them into a "radioactive desert" (with subs) /usElgqHeIG- Francis Scarr May 1, 2022 And another nuclear threat to the UK from Russian state TV's Dmitry Kiselyov: ![]()
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