The IAEA needs to push non-proliferation.

This episode in Ukraine regarding Russia's aggressive agenda based in ideology has exposed the vulnerability of TRUST when writing treaties. Treaties are supposed to be ethical while upholding virtues that elevate societies and people. Russia is far afield of any ethical commitment to the world. It is UNABLE, under the current leadership, to provide any kind of valuable virtue.

This is not a conventional weapon.

July 8, 2022
By Sam LaGrone

A Russian Navy submarine (click here) armed with a strategic nuclear torpedo the size of a school bus was delivered to the Kremlin this week, according to an announcement from the shipyard.

Project 09852 Belgorod is based on a Russian Oscar-class guided-cruise missile submarine that has been altered to accommodate six 80-foot Poseidon nuclear torpedoes that could be armed with a warhead of up to 100 megatons, USNI News previously reported.

The submarine was delivered to the Russian Navy in a ceremony in at the Northern Fleet’s headquarters in Severodvinsk on Friday,

“The Belgorod submarine opens up new opportunities for Russia in conducting various research, allows conducting diverse scientific expeditions and rescue operations in the most remote areas of the world ocean,” according to a statement from Russian Navy chief Adm. Nikolai Anatolyevich Yevmenov.

“The ship is designed to solve diverse scientific problems, conduct search and rescue operations, and can also be used as a carrier of rescue deep-sea and autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles.”...

Russia is worse than North Korea in it's obsession with nuclear warfare. Russia currently holds the most nuclear warheads in it's stockpile and it also owns the largest capacity nuclear weapon.

A 100 megaton nuclear weapon has never been tested to record what it will do to Earth yet alone people and destructions of cities. This is outrageous and speaks to Putin's preoccupation with nuclear weapons.

October 29, 2021

By Alex Wellerstein

In the early hours of October 30, 1961, (click here) a bomber took off from an airstrip in northern Russia and began its flight through cloudy skies over the frigid Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya. Slung below the plane’s belly was a nuclear bomb the size of a small school bus—the largest and most powerful bomb ever created....

...A fire-red ball of enormous size rose and grew. It grew larger and larger, and when it reached enormous size, it went up. Behind it, like a funnel, the whole earth seemed to be drawn in. The sight was fantastic, unreal, and the fireball looked like some other planet. It was an unearthly spectacle! 

The flash alone lasted more than a minute. The fireball expanded to nearly six miles in diameter—large enough to include the entire urban core of Washington or San Francisco, or all of midtown and downtown Manhattan. Over several minutes it rose and mushroomed into a massive cloud. Within ten minutes, it had reached a height of 42 miles and a diameter of some 60 miles. One civilian witness remarked that it was “as if the Earth was killed.” Decades later, the weapon would be given the name it is most commonly known by today: Tsar Bomba, meaning “emperor bomb.”...

The largest bomb to ever be known on Earth was a 50 megaton bomb created by Russia. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was entered into to prevent the explosion of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere of Earth.

The USA has fewer nukes than Russia, but, numbers of nukes and the capacity to carry warheads is not the point. The USA is second to Russia but larger in numbers of nukes than any other country. The point is that a certain number of nuclear bombs is all that one country needs because of the overkill capacity of all these weapons. 

We know from the two American detonations during WWII that these weapons kill millions of civilians at a time and lay waste to any evidence of civilization over enormous pieces of land. The picture above is from the record of the 50 megaton explosion a long time ago.

The problem with nuclear weapons besides the death and destruction is the fact they reach high into Earth's atmospheres.

42 miles is equal to 67.6 kilometers, that places the 50 megaton bomb's height through the troposphere and stratosphere and half way to the mesosphere. What will a 100 megaton bomb do? Perhaps reach all the way to the top of Earth's atmospheres only to have the radiation contamination be forever in the space around Earth and quite possibly changing the way Earth receives light from the sun. Then multiple that destruction by all the nukes in every country on Earth and it is called obliteration.

The diagram to the right is from Wiki. It shows Earth's atmospheres in kilometers, not miles.

This is the 21st Century, not the 1950s although Putin seems to like the old days better than civilizations of innovation and sophistication. To prove how far we have come; in the 1950s there was no cyber warfare.

The IAEA monitors nuclear activity in countries. The agency needs to create a picture for the global community of what a nuclear war, if ever embarked upon, with these weapons will look like at the beginning, middle and end.

The agency should enforce the idea of mutual assured destruction and non-proliferation with an annual signature of every leader of every nation on Earth. They don't have to commit to anything, except, to understand a common knowledge of what mutual assured destruction looks like. This will bring the entire world under the same understanding of what will occur when nukes are turned loose for no reason except to destroy cities, countries and people.

We have learned from the experience in Ukraine that Russia has no idea of what they are doing with nuclear power. Russia regularly loses scientists to radiation exposure ultimately leading to their deaths. Scandinavia has recorded multiple spikes of nuclear content of the wind/air that blows from Russia to their countries. Russia does not care if other countries are as contaminated as it is because of their accidents and experiments.

If every world leader did nothing else but understand the power of nuclear weapons and the lack of sophistication of the use of them, it would at least prove that every country is aware of the power of nuclear weapons, the danger of nuclear material in power plants and understands nuclear radiation and how it travels to contaminate fisheries, water and land rendering all as useless. Such a capacity of the IAEA would speak to radiation sickness and how it has no cure, but, kills.

I sincerely believe whatever goes on in Russia is due to ignorance as well as carelessness. The Russian scientists, navy personnel and others that assemble these weapons have a right to their lives without the danger of nuclear contamination. In Ukraine, the Russians showed no sophistication in maintaining nuclear dust out of the atmosphere, contaminated the surrounding area of Chernobyl and ultimately stole equipment from a lab and kidnapped experts from that lab to take to Belarus.

The world needs to come to terms with these weapons and insist on removing them completely from any venue of war forever.