With the INF treaty all but dead, one Russian paper warns of “a situation even more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis.” And the government paper says it “cannot exclude” Russia deploying a “100 megaton nuclear...Doomsday weapon” off the US coast. #ReadingRussia pic.twitter.com/iJxOXpXWmE— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) February 4, 2019
Business Insider: Russian media threatens US with 100-megaton nuclear doomsday device after key arms treaty fails
* Russia's military and state-sponsored media have reacted to the news that the US will exit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with a fire and fury of their own, threatening to deploy a nuclear "doomsday device."
* The US found Russia in violation of a key arms treaty, so the US scrapped the treaty and announced it would create its own formerly banned weapons.
* Russia responded by saying it would build its own new nukes in retaliation, and its state-controlled media said nuclear war was now more likely.
* Russian media also floated the possibility of sailing an underwater nuclear doomsday device to the US's coast. Experts say this is perhaps the most dangerous weapon ever built.
Russia's military and state-sponsored media have reacted with a fire and fury of their own to the news that the US will exit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), one of the last barriers preventing a full-on Cold War-like arms race in Europe — and there's already talk of a nuclear doomsday device visiting the US.
The INF Treaty banned land-based nuclear-capable missiles with a range between 300 and 3,200 miles in 1987 when Russia and the US had populated much of Europe with intermediate-range nuclear missiles. The ban eliminated this entire class of missiles and went down as one of the most successful acts of arms control ever.
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WNU Editor: The above BBC review of Russian newspapers mirrors what their websites are saying. Russian media is well known to paint a "dark picture" on current events, but they are now reaching new levels of "doom and gloom" since the termination of the INF treat that I have seen for a long time.
