The last week has seen global panic and confusion in the upper echelons of power surrounding a seemingly benign incident: a fire aboard a Russian submarine. Representatives have been recalled, loved ones have been temporarily evacuated, and leaders have been holding emergency sessions behind closed doors. As usual, the truth has been buried by rumors, cover-ups, propaganda, and disinformation. Given what I know though, I feel it is my duty to share what I've come to understand thus far with the average reader, because the incident really does have nightmarish implications for the average denizen of this Earth.
First, what I know: As of this Spring, Russia unveiled a new class of submarine: The Belgorod. The only three specifications that the reader needs to know about this vessel are a) it's massive, b) it can carry a deep submersible, the Losharik, and c) it also carries several high-yield thermonuclear Poseidon torpedoes.
So, did its Losharik submersible suffer an accident, or were it and the mothership involved in a firefight? The answer is: I don't know, but it doesn't really matter, as the implications are equally frightening either way.
If as Israeli News stations initially reported, the Belgorod and Losharik were involved in some form of altercation with an American or European submarine, the consequences of such an incident would obviously include the prospect of armed conflict between two nuclear powers. I don't really feel the need to embellish the reader's imagination about the problems that poses.
However, even if the Russian government is to be believed, and there was little more than a simple fire aboard the Losharik submersible, that in and of itself would be cause for as much if not more concern. The Belgorod and its sister ships will likely be prowling the deep oceans of the world, each armed with a full complement of 50-megaton thermonuclear torpedoes. If there were to be another accident aboard one at the depths they routinely travel, and if it were to suffer a several hundred megaton detonation, a sizeable portion of the world's coastlines would be instantly obliterated by the ensuing hundred-meter tsunami. That includes cities like New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, San Francisco, etc, depending upon where the detonation occurred.
As such, most reasonable people would consider it of paramount concern that the Russian government be as transparent and forthcoming as possible about the risks posed by their newly deployed Doomsday devices, particularly in light of the self-inflicted torpedo disaster aboard the Kursk, which is so fresh in everyone's memories. Because regardless of what transpired below the murky depths of the Arctic Ocean last week, much of humanity is beginning to realize it faces an Apocalyptic catastrophe in the making, which incidentally gives all the nations of the Earth a reason to care.
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