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With World War 3 fears ramping up on an-almost hourly basis, the Daily Star has figured out what would happen should Putin fling his most powerful nuclear weapon at us
All we know as Putin’s most powerful nuke would destroy UK capital as horryfic outcome detailed
- Putin, Trump, China, Greenland and more all getting involved in ramping up the WW3 rhetoric, so the Daily Star has tried to figure out what would happen if Putin did go full-warmongerer and fling his most powerful nuclear bomb towards the UK.
- Obviously, his main target would be London, specifically around Downing Street, Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament. And Putin’s biggest nuke – that we know off – would cause utter destruction.
- The RS-28 Sarmat, nicknamed “Satan II,” is a beast of a weapon. It’s Russia ’s latest super-heavy ICBM, built to replace aging Soviet tech.
- The maximum size of the nuclear fireball would be 30.9km2, which means the relevance to damage on the ground depends on the height of detonation. If it touches the ground, the amount of radioactive fallout is significantly increased. Anything inside the fireball is effectively vaporised.
- Third degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin, and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves. They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation.
- Despite this, Hull would probably be the key target for Putin anyway, given it consistently appeared on Cold War target lists and remains a strategic choke point today.
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