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2019-07-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented ‘Planetary Catastrophe’

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Posted by Fred 2019-07-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Big whoop - we're all gonna die in 11 years, seven months anyway from 'climate change', according to AOC.

Posted by Raj 2019-07-09 00:48|| 2019-07-09 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 .....prevented a planetary catastrophe,"

Something akin to the seldom discussed, above ground nuclear testing of the 50's and 60's ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-09 02:43|| 2019-07-09 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 So Russia admits that the technology used in a deployed weapons system is a potential "planetary catastrophe"!

Doesn't that imply that they are engaging in doomsday tech for normal operation and should be shut down by the rest of the people on this planet?

Posted by 3dc 2019-07-09 03:12|| 2019-07-09 03:12|| Front Page Top

#4 a non functioning reactor on the bottom of the sea

there are a bunch of these already

most recently a Russian nuke sank in 2003 pretty close to a port

Posted by lord garth 2019-07-09 07:19|| 2019-07-09 07:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Wouldn't be carrying one of those tsunami inducing torpedoes?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-09 07:50|| 2019-07-09 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 "It was going to be Chernobyl Lite™, no, no, a "planetary catastrophe, I tells you! But we stopped it! So stop keep bringing up that Chernobyl thing, okay???" --Russian spokesrobot (/sarc)

Posted by magpie 2019-07-09 14:33|| 2019-07-09 14:33|| Front Page Top

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