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Vladimir Putin is set to utilise his new technology to simulate nuclear war, according to reports.
The Russian President has developed a new method to mimic an incoming atomic bomb, and will consequently stage several military drills. The latest news comes amid his nation threatening to take the violence in Ukraine up a level by engaging in nuclear war.
Experts have declared that Khrulev Military Academy in St Petersburg is responsible for creating the technology which can simulate the mushroom cloud impact that nuclear explosions are renowned for. According to state news agency, ITAR_TASS, the patent document claims: “The purpose of the model is to simulate what a nuclear strike looks like – the shock effect, flash of light and the mushroom cloud of a ground-based nuclear explosion.”
The Moscow Times reported that the invention will be utilised to: “Train radiation, chemical and biological intelligence units to determine the parameters of the epicentre of a nuclear explosion.”
Fearing the potential consequences of nuclear war, the International Institue for Strategic Studies warns of Russia‘s potential readiness to deploy non-strategic or tactical – nuclear weapons. Their report claimed: “A particularly troubling trend from a Western perspective is Russia’s belief in its ability to achieve and maintain dominance in an escalating environment, and to compensate for losses of personnel and equipment to a degree unimaginable to the West.
“In its war on Ukraine, Russia has used direct nuclear signalling to the US and NATO with its strategic and theatre nuclear forces. More recently, it has shown with Belarus that it sees NSNW [non-strategic nuclear weapons] as a useful tool to exert further control over its near-abroad and increase its coercive power against NATO.”
