Russia could WIPE OUT Britain and US with giant tsunamis by nuking Iceland’s volcanoes, military newspaper claims

The threat involves a thermonuclear strike on Iceland’s 4,744 ft Snæfellsjökull volcano.

This would produce a “super tsunami” capable of engulfing the US capital Washington, claims the latest issue of Moscow-based weekly ‘Military Industrial Courier’.

The newspaper also featured Vladimir Putin on its front page.

Another attack option is to swamp Western Europe using a similar thermonuclear strike on the volcanic island of Jan Mayen, readers were informed.

Author Choro Tukembayev, a “scientist and military expert”, claims the first strike would collapse the south-western side of Snæfellsjökull volcano with a power that would force the Gulf Stream into reverse so flooding the US capital.


The article is headlined Tsunami Targeting Washington – a reply to an earlier article about the “guaranteed destruction of the United States” with nuclear strikes on the Yellowstone supervolcano or geological rifts on the US west coast.

The Icelandic volcano is a starting point of a natural channel – and Washington along with the American eastern seaboard would be engulfed, claimed Tukembayev.

“The natural channel is similar to a wind tunnel, at the entrance to which is a volcano.

“At the exit is Washington.”

A similar massive tsunami could wash over Britain and the west of Europe which is “particularly vulnerable due to the relief of the ocean floor and tectonic activity”.

He makes the melodramatic claim that the “wrath of Thor” could be unleashed towards Amsterdam with a vast tsunami wrought by massive bombing on Jan Mayen Island which is some 1,350 miles from the Dutch city, some of which is below sea level.


“There is a basin under the Norwegian Sea with a length of 1,020 kilometres (634 miles), ending on a shelf in the North Sea.

“Depths undergo a jump from 1600 metres (5250 ft) to 94 metres (310 ft) on the line of the Faroe Islands-to-Trondheim.

“From here to Amsterdam (the distance is) 1150 kilometres (715 miles).”

The ‘Military Industrial Courier’ has been used in the past by Russian defence chiefs to explain their ideas on modern warfare.

This publication was picked up widely by the Russian mass media.

But there has been scathing criticism in Russia, with claims the proposals were scandalous, anti-scientific and irresponsible.


Leading hydrologist Yuri Dolotov said: “This is complete nonsense from the geological point of view.

“The Gulf Stream is one enormously big flow of water…

“Even if the whole of that Icelandic volcano is thrown into the Gulf Stream, it will be like chucking a brick into the River Volga.”



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