The plan involves employing thousands of migrants to construct plywood replicas of Washington and London on a large archipelago used by the Soviet Union in the Arctic
A crackpot plan to build plywood versions of the city centres of London and Washington in the Arctic – then blow them up with a nuclear missile – has been revealed by an ardent Vladimir Putin propagandist.
The aim would be to get thousands of migrants to build the replicas of the two Western cities on Novaya Zemlya, a large archipelago notoriously used by the Soviet Union for atomic tests. The submarine launched nuclear missiles would blast the plywood cities in a warning to the West to stop arming Ukraine with missiles.
Russian propagandist Alexei Mikhailov, Head of the Bureau of Political-Military Analysis, explained the plan on Russian state TV, which is controlled by the Kremlin. “The Anglo-Saxons want a big continental war – they really do,” he said. “[We know about the] absolutely disgusting intentions of Britain to….directly participate in the military conflict with Russia by supplying, among other things, long-range precision weapons.”
The harebrained scheme is to “build a replica of London on Novaya Zemlya [nuclear-testing island in the Arctic]…. And Washington, the centre….the White House, this central part. And we’re going to do an exercise.”
This would involve the submarine launch of a Bulava missile from a submarine in the Atlantic towards Novaya Zemlya. The plywood Washington and London would be hit with “more than 150 kilotons of TNT equivalent”, said Mikhailov, suggesting this would be a warning that would force Western governments to stop arming Ukraine, so handing victory to Russia. On YouTube let three billion YouTube users see what it looks like to destroy the capital of Britain and the United States, with just one warhead out of 10 that are part of each Bulava.”
TV propagandist host Vladimir Solovyov suggested Russia had no time to build the plywood cities. “Thousands of migrants, who now do not want to leave our country, will erect the City Centre out of plywood,” insisted Mikhailov. “There will be Buckingham Palace and Big Ben. It will all go up in blue flames and fly so beautifully that the world will be horrified.”
The new submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile went into service earlier this year. The 40ft rocket, with an estimated 5,160 mile range, can carry six-to-ten individually guided nuclear warheads which can strike multiple targets. It is seen as the cornerstone in the naval part of Russia’s land-sea-air nuclear triad.
Novaya Zemlya is notorious for its role as a Soviet nuclear test site in the Cold War. The Tsar Bomba – the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated – was tested on 30 October 1961. The explosion was so large that it caused shockwaves that circled the Earth multiple times, and its mushroom cloud reached more than 37 miles into the sky.
