Originally Posted by
Dragonman
Hosts Olga Skabeyeva and Evgeny Popov and guest Aleksey Zhuravlyov, on a program on what is being referred to as "Russian state television" in news reports, Channel One’s 60 Minutes program, claimed that nuclear weapons could strike European capitals less than four minutes after being launched. The capitals and specific times referred to are Berlin (106 seconds), Paris (200 seconds) and London (202 seconds). They appeared to assume that this meant there would be no retaliation as Aleksey Zhuravlyov said: 'One Sarmat [missile] and that's it - the British Isles are no more.'
As I stated in an earlier post, all that matters is "whether enough people in the chain of command are still alive to launch the remainder." One UK Trident submarine is on patrol at all times, carrying no more than eight missiles and forty warheads - more than enough to obliterate Moscow, St. Petersburg and Russian military bases. France now has three of its four submarines capable of firing nuclear warheads at sea. Germany does not have its own nuclear weapons but is one of five NATO members (the others are Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey) to host B61 nuclear weapons on its territory as part of a nuclear-sharing agreement. Germany as approximately 10-15 B61 nuclear bombs. Belgium has approximately 20, Italy approximately 40, the Netherlands 20, and Turkey 50.
Any nuclear attack on the three countries mentioned in the Russian 60 Minutes program is an attack on all NATO countries, and risks retaliation not only directly from the US land and sea-based forces but all the other nuclear-weapons hosting nations.
Bye, bye Russia.
Enough said?