The Truth About Russia's 'Doomsday' Poseidon Weapon
Wes O'Donnell
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The Truth About Russia's 'Doomsday' Poseidon Weapon
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Wes O'Donnell
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149 525 просмотров · 19 часов назад
Russia threatened the UK with the Poseidon nuclear torpedo saying it would flood Britain with a 500-meter radioactive tsunami. So, let’s take a look at this Bond-villain weapon and see what it can really do.
The radioactive tsunami claim is just false. But that doesn't make Poseidon harmless: it's a real, functioning autonomous weapon designed to carry a multi-megaton warhead across an ocean underwater, bypassing the missile defenses built to stop threats arriving from the sky.
I break down what Poseidon can actually do, how NATO's undersea detection network would try to stop it, and why the real threat here is far less cinematic than Russian news wants you to believe.
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Chapters!
00:00 - Russia's Poseidon Threat: Premise and Problem
00:56 - Why Nuclear Explosions Can't Create Tsunamis
01:59 - Poseidon Feasibility and Warhead Estimates
03:34 - Warhead Magnitude and Speed Claims: Fact vs Fiction
05:22 - Submarine Hydrodynamics: Speed, Drag, and Acoustic Trade‑offs
06:39 - Unstoppable? Detection Challenges and the Tsunami Myth
13:44 - Beyond the Myth: Real Consequences of an Underwater Nuclear Detonation
14:40 - Strategic Role of Poseidon as a Deterrent
17:08 - Current Development Status and Realistic Threat to Britain
18:21 - Final Thoughts and Geopolitical Context
Thanks to H.I. Sutton for use of still images. Video Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10...
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