In a shocking statement about the nature of the conflict between major powers in the coming years, a Russian military expert said his country should resort to unconventional methods to ensure a nuclear balance with the United States, which has recently signaled a withdrawal from a historic treaty.
The vice president of the Russian National Academy for Geopolitical Affairs, Sekovov Konstantin, said that Moscow should make nuclear war irrational and meaningless, by resorting to an unusual strategy.
The Russian scientist said in an article published on the site "VPK" that Russia can not trade the United States in the nuclear race as usual, so the solution, he says is that Moscow's development of a nuclear bomb can carry 100 megaton tons of explosives.
To make the picture even clearer, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War had only 15,000 tons of explosive material, meaning that the proposed bomb in Russia would cause unprecedented damage.
The large nuclear power that was tested during the Soviet Union in 1961 is 50 megawatts and is likely to have reached 100 megatons later.
The expert urges his country to manufacture between 40 and 50 of these warheads, which can reach very distant targets, and believes that this step will ensure Russian superiority in the event of war with the United States.
The use of these nuclear warheads specifically to bomb the Yellowstone volcano in the United States would destroy the United States in its entirety.
He points out that targeting this site is very dangerous considering the geo-physical nature of the area. Therefore, a nuclear weapon can cause a major disaster, and this will also happen if the long ground is hit in the San Andres area of California.
According to the report, Russia may exploit the geological weaknesses of the United States to achieve the greatest gains in the future war, even if not in the present time.
The horrifying Russian proposal comes amid tension between Moscow and Washington over the United States' intention to withdraw from a nuclear deal on medium-range missiles, signed in 1987 by the Cold War.
US President Donald Trump waved the withdrawal because of what he said were Russian violations of the treaty.
But Moscow denied any breach of what had been agreed upon and said Washington was longing for unipolarity to remain the only force on the international stage.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that if the United States abandoned the medium-range nuclear missile treaty and refused to renew the agreement known as New START, it could become "very dangerous."
The Russian president said he hoped to discuss the matter with his US counterpart in Paris during the commemoration of the first World War I truce in Paris on Nov. 11.
