@mcveteran81
"As bad as that sounds, it gets even worse. Reports from Russia indicate the bomb could be armed with a "salted bomb", or one that "salts the Earth" with the dangerous isotope Cobalt-60. Such a bomb could spread such high levels of radioactivity it would prevent anyone from using the attack zone for approximately 100 years. Depending on location and prevailing weather conditions, such an explosion would also carry vast amounts of radiation inland."
"The existence of Status-6 was originally greeted with some skepticism—the weapon sounds so horrible, so devastating, and so completely over the top it is difficult to process that someone would actually want to build such a thing. Unfortunately for all of mankind, it appears that it is very real. Russian reports indicate it could be outfitted with a 100-megaton nuclear warhead."
Russia is thought to have conceived 'Status-6' as a response to America's missile defense system. Fortunately submarines are easily detectable through modern military satellites. It has a nuclear reactor propulsion system. That's where they fucked up. But you still have to destroy the fricking thing. The weapon is indeed 'horrible, devastating, and so completely over the top'. Russia has detonated the largest thermonuclear bomb in history - 50 megatons - Tsar bomb in 1961. That fricking thing was detonated in northern Russia and had radioactive repercussions in Europe. Glass windows were broken 600 miles away. The Radioactive cloud circled the globe. The original design was for 100 megatons.
A 100 megaton 'salted' bomb is utterly insane. It is like the use of mustard gas in WWI, it affects both sides. Why the fuck would the Russians build this thing? Well, with Putin in power, anything is possible. Not sure he is mentally stable, plus he was the head of the KGB for many years. It takes a special kind of fanatical to run the KGB.
Well, the U.S. better come up with a counter strategy, like yesterday, to destroy this thing. Fit a laser system in those satellites and sink that 'fish'.
Status-6 Submarine Nuclear Drone