Well, who told you that our civilization is the first on Earth?! Didn't it occur to you that there was a human civilization on our planet that burned down in a nuclear war? There are reasons for such a version.

We can easily find echoes of a terrible catastrophe in the myths and legends of any people living on our planet. The legends of the African pygmies tell of "a great fire that descended from the sky." Maya records tell of a terrible fire that raged for "three days and three nights" and describe surviving dogs that lost their hair and claws. (Any veterinarian, seeing such a dog, will mention the possibility of radioactive damage among other diagnoses.)

At the time of testing the atomic bomb, the German scientist Oppenheimer read an excerpt from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata: “And a flash brighter than a thousand suns burned the city,” the death of the capital of the Harrapan civilization, the city of Mohenjo-Daro, was described in the Mahabharata.

Is there anything else besides oral tradition? Eat.

City destroyed by atomic explosion

The mentioned Mohenjo-Daro is not a fabulous city. It was discovered in 1922 and still remains a mystery to archaeologists. The city did not die like others for centuries, but died instantly and for an unknown reason. It was not captured by the army, and was not destroyed by the flood - it burned down. Moreover, the strength of the fire was so great that the stones melted (and this is at least 1500 degrees!). The epicenter of destruction is the center of the city, towards the periphery the destruction decreases - a classic picture of the consequences of an atomic bombing. And if only this!

The radioactivity of dozens of skeletons found in the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro exceeds the norm by 50 times! Scattered throughout the city are the so-called. tektites are lumps of sand sintered into a glassy mass. (In the 20th century, when tektites began to be massively found at nuclear test sites, humanity revealed the secret of their origin.)

Nuclear bombing of the planet

Simultaneously with Mohenjo-Daro, as a result of the same strange and terrible fire, other nearby cities also perished. Cities burned in a nuclear flame are found not only in India. Melted walls have the ancient capital of the Hittites Hattus, Babylon, the cities of England, Ireland, Scotland, Turkey, France.

Entire tektite fields have been found in Southeast Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos), Australia, Europe (in the Czech Republic), Africa, America (Georgia and Texas), Northwest Asia (Aral area, Kazakhstan), the Gobi desert (that's why it is a desert).

On Earth, scientists have found more than 100 funnels with a diameter of 2 to 3 km. There are 30 funnels ranging in size from 20 to 50 km, 12 - from 50 to 100 km, the diameter of the Mexican Chicxulub is 170 km, the Canadian Sudbury is 250 km, the South African Vredefort is 300 km. Q: Are they all natural? Did comets fall there or something else?

Radiation results?

During the training of astronauts, American scientists encountered a strange phenomenon: if the subjects were not given information about the passage of time, they switched to a 36-hour rhythm. Apparently, earlier the Earth rotated more slowly, but as a result of some cataclysm, the Earth's day was compressed to 24 hours. A person has rebuilt, but the information is still stored in his memory at the genetic level, and the body, at the first opportunity, is rebuilt to the usual rhythm.

Archaeologists constantly find the remains of people who are difficult to call people: giants, people with teeth in two rows, giants, cyclops and other mutants appear in legends. Yes, mutants. The mass appearance of such “one-of-a-kinds” is quite understandable as a result of exposure to radioactive radiation on humanity. Over time, of course, nature took its toll, and the anomalous manifestations gradually faded away. (Here's the clue to where all these "monsters" have gone.)

Epitaph of a civilization that killed itself

The last nuclear war literally wiped out the existing civilization from the face of the Earth. We will never know what it was like, who fought with whom, because of what a nuclear war began, etc. One thing is certain, if our predecessors fought with nuclear weapons, then in everything else they reached a very high level of development. Most likely, even higher than humanity has today.

And the last thing: the candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences Alexander Koltypin believes that the Earth has experienced not one, but 5-6 nuclear wars. So everything repeats. And not once.

Russia is not going to be the first to use nuclear weapons and will not initiate a global catastrophe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

He explained that the Russian concept of using this type of WMD does not provide for a preventive strike, only a response to an attack is possible. And it will all end in mutual destruction.

The issue of nuclear weapons is once again becoming topical with the growing tension around the world. The possibility of a preemptive strike was allowed in the Pentagon, however, with the stipulation that they would go for it only if they were firmly convinced that a strike against the United States was inevitable.

In the spring, they seriously discussed a possible attack on the DPRK - in response to threats from the North Korean leader.

And experts are discussing when the Third World War will begin and whether any of the potential participants will go for the suicidal use of nuclear weapons.

USA: Donald Trump is at war on Twitter

The belligerent tweets of the president of the most powerful state in the world at the moment have long been the talk of the tongue. Trump won the presidential race, among other things, thanks to the manner of saying what he thinks that has won over many, even if this is far from the standards accepted in politics. For example, why can't America use nuclear weapons if it has them?

Having become head of state, Trump did not abandon this manner, so sometimes there are calls to take away the account from the US president - or rather, the nuclear button.

In April of this year, a tweet in which Trump urged Russia to prepare for the arrival of “good, new and smart” missiles in Syria and accused it of supporting a “killer animal”, that is, the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, made the whole world afraid of the start of World War III.

The president himself, it seems, did not expect such a reaction at all. Less than an hour later, he published a completely different post in which he wondered why relations with Russia are now worse than during the Cold War, because there is essentially no reason for this.

The Kremlin reacted briefly to a question about Trump's tweets - they say, we are not for Twitter diplomacy, but for a serious approach. The clashes between American and Russian troops in Syria, which everyone feared, did not happen again.

North Korean leader: smarter than you think

Russia is a long-time adversary of the United States, and relations between the countries are really tense right now. However, the idea of ​​a preventive nuclear strike at the Pentagon arose for a completely different reason: the US military was alerted by the threats of the leaders of the DPRK, whose rhetoric has become completely belligerent.

A small country in the north of the Korean Peninsula was engaged in the development of nuclear weapons, which did not suit the members of the so-called "nuclear club", that is, countries that already possess WMD. Sanctions were imposed against the DPRK, but this did not bother the leaders of the state.

A sharp aggravation of relations, called the August crisis, occurred last year. The head of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, even threatened to launch a nuclear strike on the US air base on the island of Guam. The forces of the tiny Asian state and the United States, it would seem, are incomparable, but the DPRK, in the event of an armed conflict, could cause serious damage to its neighbors, South Korea and Japan. So the war had to be avoided.

Trump, of course, could not stand the threats of the North Korean leader and averted his soul on Twitter. The apotheosis was the exchange of "New Year's greetings": the leader of the DPRK, addressing the nation, said that he always kept the nuclear button at hand so that the United States could not start a war. Trump replied on the same Twitter that his button is bigger and it works.

As a result, both opponents turned out to be more reasonable than it seemed from their statements. Not without difficulty, efforts and difficulties on both sides, the crisis in relations was overcome, the leaders of the United States and the DPRK met in Singapore for the first time in history and even reached an agreement that the DPRK would denuclearize the Korean Peninsula if the United States provided security guarantees. True, the document does not contain any specifics, and many analysts said that Kim Jong-un outplayed his overseas counterpart. But war on the Korean Peninsula was avoided.

Russia: retribution is inevitable

In February of this year, the United States promulgated a new nuclear doctrine, which provides for the modernization of nuclear weapons and the development of their low-yield types.

It names Russia, China, North Korea and Iran as potential adversaries. Unlike small North Korea and relatively small Iran, Russia, as the successor to the USSR, is a longtime geopolitical rival of the United States. It was these two countries that became the first and main owners of terrifying weapons of mass destruction, capable of destroying any potential enemy - and at the same time the planet.

In 1987, after Soviet Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan signed an agreement on the elimination of intermediate and shorter-range nuclear missiles (INF). Massive disarmament continued for 30 years. However, now many experts fear that a new arms race has begun, and they are calculating which side has the advantage.

Some analysts believe that Vladimir Putin's famous speech in March with a message to the Federal Assembly, in which he spoke about new types of weapons for the Russian army, was a response to the updated US nuclear doctrine. And Trump's tweet about "smart missiles", in turn, was a response to Putin's speech.

At a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, the Russian leader recalled that Russia does not intend to be the first to use nuclear weapons, but that a strike will be answered. To make sure that the attack has taken place, modern systems of early warning of a missile attack will help, which can detect the launch of missiles in any territory within a few seconds, as well as determine the flight path and the places where the warheads fall.

“The aggressor must know that retribution is inevitable, that he will be destroyed. And we, the victims of aggression, we, as martyrs, will go to heaven, and they will simply die, because they won’t even have time to repent,” the president summed up emotionally, assuring that Russia would not be the initiator of a “global catastrophe.”

Apocalypse in 40 minutes

The political situation in the world is becoming more and more tense, and experts and journalists are increasingly talking about the Third World War.

Some people think that it is already underway, others do not rule out that the conflict will begin in the near future. The most likely opponents are the United States on the one hand and Russia and China on the other. Some even believe that it is worth waiting for a clash between the US and China, but in this case, Russia, as an ally of China, is unlikely to be able to stay out of the fight.

Analysts see the future war in different ways, most often referring to a hybrid war, in which the main role is played not so much by direct hostilities as by political and economic pressure and non-military attacks, such as electronic and informational.

Opinions are expressed very different, but the vast majority of experts agree on one thing - there will be no "classic" nuclear war between Russia and the United States. According to calculations, the exchange of nuclear strikes will last 40 minutes and end with the death of mankind. And hardly any of the politicians will take such a suicidal step.

A nuclear war is usually called a hypothetical clash between countries or military-political blocs that have thermonuclear or nuclear weapons and put them into action. Nuclear weapons in such a conflict will become the main means of destruction. The history of nuclear war, fortunately, has not yet been written. But after the start of the Cold War in the second half of the last century, a nuclear war between the US and the USSR was considered a very likely development.

  • What happens if a nuclear war breaks out?
  • Doctrines of nuclear war in the past
  • US nuclear doctrine during the thaw
  • Russian nuclear doctrine

What happens if a nuclear war breaks out?

Many fearfully asked the question: what will happen if a nuclear war breaks out? This is a major environmental hazard:

  • Explosions would release a huge amount of energy.
  • Ashes and soot from fires would block the sun for a long time, which would lead to the effect of "nuclear night" or "nuclear winter" with a sharp drop in temperature on the planet.
  • The apocalyptic picture was to be supplemented by radioactive contamination, which would have no less catastrophic consequences for life.

It was assumed that most of the countries of the world would inevitably be drawn into such a war, directly or indirectly.

The danger of a nuclear war is that it would lead to a global environmental catastrophe and even the death of our civilization.

What will happen in the event of a nuclear war? A powerful explosion is only part of the disaster:

  1. As a result of a nuclear explosion, a giant fireball is formed, the heat from which chars or completely burns all life at a sufficiently large distance from the epicenter of the explosion.
  2. A third of the energy is released in the form of a powerful light pulse, which is a thousand times brighter than the radiation of the sun, so it instantly ignites all flammable materials (fabrics, paper, wood), and causes third-degree burns to people.
  3. But the primary fires do not have time to flare up, because they are partially extinguished by a powerful blast wave. Flying burning debris, sparks, household gas explosions, short circuits and burning petroleum products cause extensive and already long-lasting secondary fires.
  4. Separate fires merge into a terrifying fiery tornado that can easily burn down any metropolis. Such fiery tornadoes, arranged by the allies, destroyed Dresden and Hamburg during the Second World War.
  5. Since heat is released in large quantities in mass fires, the heated air masses rush upward, forming hurricanes near the surface of the earth, bringing new portions of oxygen to the focus.
  6. Dust and soot ascend to the stratosphere, forming a giant cloud there that blocks the sunlight. A prolonged blackout leads to a nuclear winter.

After a nuclear war, the Earth would hardly have remained at least a little like its former self, it would be scorched, and almost all living things would die.

An instructive video about what will happen if a nuclear war starts:

Doctrines of nuclear war in the past

The first doctrine (theory, concept) of nuclear war arose immediately after the end of World War II, in the United States. Then it was invariably reflected in the strategic concepts of NATO and the United States. However, the military doctrine of the USSR also assigned nuclear missiles a decisive role in the next big war.

Initially, a massive nuclear war scenario was envisaged with the unlimited use of all available nuclear weapons, and their targets would be not only military, but also civilian objects. It was believed that in such a conflict, the advantage would have been given to the country that was the first to launch a massive nuclear strike against the enemy, the purpose of which was the preemptive destruction of his nuclear weapons.

But there was the main problem of nuclear war - a preventive nuclear attack might not be so effective, and the enemy would be able to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike on industrial centers and large cities.

Since the late 1950s, a new concept of "limited nuclear war" has emerged in the United States. In the 1970s, according to this concept, various weapons systems could be used in a hypothetical armed conflict, including operational-tactical and tactical nuclear weapons, which had limitations on the scale of use and means of delivery. Nuclear weapons in such a conflict would only be used to destroy military and important economic facilities. If a distortion of history could happen, nuclear wars in the recent past could actually follow a similar scenario.

One way or another, but the United States is still the only state that in practice used nuclear weapons in 1945 not against the military, but dropped 2 bombs on the civilian population of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9).

Hiroshima

On August 6, 1945, under the guise of the Potsdam Declaration, which set an ultimatum regarding the immediate surrender of Japan, the American government sent an American bomber to the Japanese Islands, and at 08:15 Japanese time, it dropped the first nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima, which had the code name "Kid".

The power of this charge was relatively small - about 20,000 tons of TNT. The explosion of the charge occurred at an altitude of about 600 meters above the ground, and its epicenter was above the Sima hospital. Hiroshima was not chosen by chance as the target of a demonstrative nuclear strike - it was there at that time that the General Staff of the Japanese Navy and the Second General Staff of the Japanese Army were located.

  • The explosion destroyed a large part of Hiroshima.
  • Over 70,000 people were killed instantly.
  • Near 60,000 died later from wounds, burns and radiation sickness.
  • Within a radius of about 1.6 kilometers there was a zone of complete destruction, while fires spread over an area of ​​11.4 square meters. km.
  • 90% of the city's buildings were either completely destroyed or badly damaged.
  • The tram system miraculously survived the bombardment.

In the six months following the bombing, they died from its consequences. 140,000 people.

This “insignificant”, according to the military, charge once again proved that the consequences of a nuclear war for humanity are devastating, as for a race.

Sad video about the nuclear attack on Hiroshima:

Nagasaki

On August 9, at 11:02 am, another American plane dropped another nuclear charge on the city of Nagasaki - "Fat Man". It was blown up high above the Nagasaki Valley, where industrial plants were located. The second consecutive American nuclear attack on Japan caused new catastrophic destruction and loss of life:

  • 74,000 Japanese were killed instantly.
  • 14,000 buildings were completely destroyed.

In fact, these terrible moments can be called the days when a nuclear war almost started, since bombs were dropped on civilians, and only a miracle stopped the moment when the world was on the brink of nuclear war.

US nuclear doctrine during the thaw

After the end of the Cold War, the American doctrine of limited nuclear war was transformed into the concept of counterproliferation. It was first voiced by US Secretary of Defense L. Espin in December 1993. The Americans considered that with the help of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons it was no longer possible to achieve this goal, therefore, at critical moments, the United States reserved the right to inflict "disarming strikes" on nuclear facilities of objectionable regimes.

In 1997, a directive was adopted according to which the US Army must be ready to strike at foreign facilities for the production and storage of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. And in 2002, the concept of counterproliferation was included in the US national security strategy. Within its framework, the United States intended to destroy nuclear facilities in Korea and Iran or take control of Pakistani facilities.

Russian nuclear doctrine

The military doctrine of Russia also periodically changes its wording. In the latter version, Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons if not only nuclear or other types of weapons of mass destruction, but also conventional weapons were used against it or its allies, if this threatens the very foundations of the existence of the state, which may become one of the causes of nuclear war. This indicates the main thing - the likelihood of a nuclear war is currently quite acute, but the rulers understand that no one can survive in this conflict.

Russian nuclear weapons

An alternative story with a nuclear war developed in Russia. The US State Department for 2016 estimated, based on the data provided under the START-3 treaty, that 508 strategic nuclear launchers were deployed in the Russian army:

  • intercontinental ballistic missiles;
  • strategic bombers;
  • submarine missiles.

In total, there are 847 nuclear charge carriers, on which 1796 charges are installed. It should be noted that nuclear weapons in Russia are being reduced quite intensively - in half a year their number is reduced by 6%.

With such weapons and more than 10 countries in the world that have officially confirmed the presence of nuclear weapons, the threat of nuclear war is a global problem, the prevention of which is a guarantee of life on Earth.

Are you afraid of nuclear war? Do you think it will come and how soon? Share your opinion or guesses in the comments.

On the morning of April 11, 2018, a “doomsday plane” took off into the sky over America. This is a special E-4B airliner, which has the second name "Aircraft of the End of the World."

Members of the US command center must escape on it: President Donald Trump, as well as the country's top military leadership.

The aircraft has protection against a nuclear explosion and is alerted only in the event of a nuclear war, when there is a risk of damage or destruction of control structures on the ground.

When will the war with America begin

A new round of tension between Russia and the United States began after the American leader threatened to retaliate against the use of chemical weapons in Syria (Duma province). The fact of the chemical attack on April 7, 2018 is denied by the Syrian authorities, as well as the Russian Ministry of Defense.

However, the President of America threatened to make a decision within 24-48 hours regarding the further actions of the US Air Force. Washington has promised to find out which states are involved in the latest events in Syria, and Donald Trump has openly threatened that they "will all pay the price."

The world is on the verge of World War III, when the arms race has reached its peak, and the economies of Russia and the United States are cracking under the pressure of overproduction of the latest murder weapons. Michel Nostradamus is in solidarity with this opinion, who in his predictions directly indicated that the Great War between countries would begin in 2018.

The famous clairvoyant wrote that his forecast for 2018 suggests the start of a big war in France, after which most of the countries of Europe will be attacked. In the notes of Nostradamus there is an indication that soon after this peace will come, "but only a few will be satisfied with it."

The eminent prophet pointed out that the war between "two great world powers will last 27 years." There is also a hint in Nostradamus' notes that Russia, North Korea and China will join forces to jointly attack the US.

Will there be a nuclear war in 2018

The fact that the Third World War is inevitable was also said by the seer Vanga, who foreshadowed the fatal End of the World immediately after the fall of Syria. The great clairvoyant directly pointed out that the power of China will reach its climax by 2018. But the Russian economy may suffer significantly due to the cessation of oil production.

Military experts and predictors agree that the fall of the ruble and the explosive situation in the world are closely linked. America is preparing an unpleasant surprise for Vladimir Putin by May 7, 2018, as his next inauguration is scheduled for this day. But at a meeting at the Central Intelligence Agency, they named the exact date for the start of the Third World War, which falls at the end of April.

The United States is aggravating the situation in Syria more and more, but America is afraid of a real war with Russia. “In relations with the United States, everything is heading towards direct confrontation. They are afraid of this, because nowhere and never have they fought with a powerful power, only with small countries. And we have a new weapon that we can test during such a conflict,” Zhirinovsky wrote.

If a war breaks out between Russia and the United States, military operations will be carried out on foreign territory. “Not a single bomb will fall either on the soil of Russia or on the soil of the United States. All actions will unfold in Syria or Ukraine, all misfortunes will fall on the heads of the long-suffering Ukrainians, Arabs, Persians, Turks. Of course, we are very sorry for these peoples,” Zhirinovsky wrote.

What will happen to the ruble exchange rate in the near future

After the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, the stock market collapsed, some shares lost more than 30% of their value. Also, create a little panic about Trump's statements about a possible US missile attack on Syria. The fall of the ruble against the dollar and the euro accelerated.

Already on April 11, 2018, 80 rubles were given for the euro, and 64.5 rubles for the dollar, which is comparable only with the hype of 2015

Large Russian businessmen literally lost about fifteen billion dollars in just a couple of days due to a sharp jump in the foreign exchange market.

The US Treasury has tightened sanctions against 38 Russian oligarchs. The most famous among them are Oleg Deripaska (the main shareholder of Rusal), Igor Rotenberg, Kirill Shamalov and Viktor Vekselberg.

The collapse of the national currency of Russia by almost 30 percent reduced the demand for foreign tours during the May holidays in 2018

The trend of strengthening the national currency in countries controlled by the US government speaks in favor of a deliberate collapse of the ruble in Russia. Most likely, the American government used the sanctions as its main trump card. Such pressure should not only lower Putin's political rating, but also force him to refuse to invest additional funds in the development of the Russian defense complex.

If war breaks out between Russia and the US, who will win?

Relations between Russia and the United States today remain very tense, and in the event of the outbreak of the Third World War, the chances of winning are approximately 50 to 50. The technical superiority of the United States is undeniable, but Russia also has something to answer in the event of association with other countries

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are unlikely to decide to arrange a nuclear Armageddon, as this can lead to mutual self-destruction. Clairvoyants predict the End of the World precisely in the event that one of the parties nevertheless decides to openly use the atomic bomb. According to the soothsayers, in this case, all life on Earth will perish ...

When will NATO go to war with Russia?

The arms race is being fueled by the efforts of North Atlantic Alliance strategists who have already paraded through the Ukrainian Maidan and are eager to do the same on Moscow's Red Square.

However, leading politicians in Russia and America do not want bombs to fall on the cities of their countries. Great states are quite capable of protecting their population from the horrors of war, which cannot be said about the countries of the Middle East and the former USSR.

First of all, states such as Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Israel, as well as the Arab states are under attack. It is there that they will work out strikes, test the enemy’s equipment for strength, make provocations and demonstrate their military power.

According to the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky, it is beneficial for the Russian Federation to maintain a military confrontation with the United States, since you can clearly see what their army is capable of.

Dangerous events that bring our planet closer to the End of the World will continue starting from 2018 for more than one decade in a row. And in the coming year of the Yellow Earth Dog, people all over the world will see special signs of the Higher Forces, which speak of the approach of the Apocalypse.

For example, three solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses during the year, which is more than is the case in quiet years. And according to the prophecy of the Hopi Indians, in the second half of 2018, the Blue Star will collide with our planet, which will completely destroy all life on Earth.

Also, Easter 2018 fell on April 8 and almost coincided with the Annunciation, which is always celebrated on April 7. Clairvoyants say that these special signs are a direct warning from the Subtle World about future disasters and wars.

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Describing the facts of the redeployment of NATO troops in order to increase the concentration of personnel and equipment along our borders, I often encounter misunderstanding on the part of my readers. A certain part of Russians considers all these publications nothing more than whipping up passions and exaggerating colors, aimed at introducing confusion into the minds of our gullible population. The main argument is that Russia has nuclear weapons. According to some of my readers, the nuclear potential is a kind of guarantee against direct aggression. A clash of two or more nuclear powers is impossible - our skeptical compatriots repeat like a mantra. The maximum that threatens us is a hybrid war, and since it is already underway, there is basically nothing more to fear.

Everything seems to be logical. An exchange of nuclear strikes, which in theory is inevitable in an open conflict between two nuclear powers, will make any territorial disputes pointless. After such a duel, there will be nothing to capture, and most likely, there will be no one. It's good that we Russians understand this! But what about Europeans and Americans? Don't they know these common truths? Why are colossal budgets being spent on building up a grouping along our borders? Why did they increase the number of military contingent in Moldova and the Baltic states by 19 times?

In order to get answers to the above questions, I suggest you return to another period. period before the start of World War II. Germany, which first used poisonous substances on the battlefield in 1915, gave rise to a new era of the arms race. Leading tacticians and strategists of warfare were able to see for themselves that victory no longer depends on the number of soldiers, tanks and guns. The concept of "mustard gas" has firmly entered the everyday life of the military. This name was given to a gas that is capable of killing soldiers, regardless of where they were. Neither armored vehicles, nor trenches and fortifications saved from this insidious weapon.

After the defeat in the First World War, Germany was deprived of the right to produce poisonous substances and chemical weapons. The only thing that German chemists could develop in their laboratories was poisons for agriculture. But other countries, realizing the potential of the new weapons, launched the production of chemical warfare agents in a very short time and were soon able to produce new-generation ammunition. Most of the European countries, the United States of America, Great Britain and the Soviet Union filled their warehouses with chemical munitions and improved the means of delivering them to the positions and settlements of a potential enemy. Poisonous substances were loaded with mortar mines, artillery and tank shells, and aerial bombs. Moreover, special aircraft appeared that were capable of spraying toxic substances over a rather large territory, destroying all life on it. Millions and millions of shells, toxic substances, thermites, mixtures that give a temperature of 4000 degrees when burned, gases - it would seem that the next war will definitely be the last for the population of the planet. Plus, Germany, which in 1934 also joined the arms race and "gave" the world such poisons as "tabun" and "sarin". I cannot confirm, but I sincerely suspect that each of the countries stuffing their arsenals with poisons believed that it was this weapon of deterrence that would protect them from external aggression. However…

The outbreak of World War II once again split the world into two poles, and Germany, the ancestor of the use of chemical warfare agents on the battlefield, again found itself at the center of one of them. It would seem that this is the moment to open the arsenals and wrap the country of the aggressor in a chemical cloud, once and for all stopping the obsessive German aggressiveness. But Germany seizes one by one the countries of Europe, and mustard gas, sarin, phosgene and termites are in no hurry to leave the military warehouses of the Western powers. And the aggressor country itself is conquering new territories in an exclusively old-fashioned way, as if forgetting about the millions of shells filled with quick and inevitable death.

Great Britain was the first to think about the use of poisonous substances, which allowed the landing of German troops on its coast. Mustard gas was seen as a means of displacing the Germans from their positions on the coast. But Germany refused to conduct Operation Sea Lion and the mustard gas never left the British military arsenals. It would seem that the USSR, which was subjected to direct aggression from Germany, had a good reason for using chemical weapons and chemical warfare agents. In the summer of 1941, near Kerch, Soviet troops used RZS-132 rocket-incendiary shells during the shelling of German positions. This ammunition was equipped with 36 termite incendiary elements of the brand "6" weighing 4.2 kg each, and was intended for firing from the BM-13-16 multiple rocket launcher, better known as "Katyusha". For one volley, "Katyusha" fired 1500 incendiary elements. The combustion temperature of the thermite mixture reached 4000°C. When thermite got on the armor of tanks and gun barrels, alloy steel changed its properties and military equipment could no longer be used. People, "marked" with termite, died a terrible and painful death. In response, the Germans fired chemical projectiles from Nebelwerfer-41 rocket-propelled mortars at the Soviet positions. Thus, Germany demonstrated to the Soviet Union its readiness to violate the terms of the Geneva Protocol of 1925 if the use of RZS-132 shells continues. These shells were no longer used by the Soviet troops to shell the Germans, and the Germans did not seek to use chemical warfare agents. In 1935, the Soviet capacity for the production of mustard gas per year was 35 thousand tons, for phosgene - 13 thousand tons, for diphosgene - 1.9 thousand tons. As of December 1, 1936, the Soviet Air Force was armed with 90,000 chemical aerial bombs, and the mobilization capacities of industry were designed to produce 796,000 chemical bombs during the year. An equally impressive arsenal of chemical weapons, the most powerful at that time, had Germany and other countries participating in the World War. But almost all of it remained gathering dust in warehouses ...

The main factor that stopped the countries participating in the military conflict from using chemical weapons was, of course, the realization that an equally monstrous retaliatory strike would follow. Plus, an understanding of the responsibility that the losing side in the conflict will inevitably bear. In 1945, America used nuclear weapons in Japan, understanding that the war had already ended and the United States was in the camp of the winners, who, as a rule, were not judged. And in 1941 and even in 1942, it was impossible to predict who would become the winner in the conflict. Germany did not yet believe in its victory, and no longer believed in its loss to the USSR.

Today, nine countries have nuclear weapons in their arsenals: Russia, the United States, Great Britain, France, China, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea. Only Russia, the United States, Great Britain and France have nuclear weapons suitable for immediate use. According to SIPRI, these nuclear warheads are already installed on missiles or stored at military bases from where they can be launched. Are these countries ready to use nuclear weapons in the event of a conflict between nuclear powers? I doubt it very much. Most likely, nuclear weapons will suffer the same fate that befell the huge stockpiles of chemical weapons. It will simply collect dust in a warehouse or be on combat duty until such time as any of the countries nevertheless crosses the barrier and uses doomsday weapons. But this is unlikely. The inevitability of a retaliatory strike, the inevitability of punishment in the event of a loss, will stop the leadership of any of the powers mentioned above. Nuclear weapons are more of a psychological factor, nothing more. No one dares to use it for its intended purpose today. It is precisely with this that the high concentration of NATO troops on our border is connected, which are assigned a decisive role in the planned conflict. It is precisely with this that the creation of new divisions and strike groups on the territory of Russia is connected, which, in principle, is not necessary for a power determined to respond to any aggression with a nuclear strike.

In general, one should not rely heavily on nuclear potential and regard the increase in the concentration of NATO troops on our border as a banal game of muscles. Apparently, the West is preparing for a direct clash with Russia. Prepare for this conflict and our country. When the thunder will strike and whether it will strike at all, the question is extremely complicated. But it is hard not to notice that preparations for war are in full swing. It is enough just to open the English-language press and look at the notes of analysts. The pumping of the local population, which day after day is hammered with information that Russia is preparing aggression either against the Baltic states, or against another state, is in full swing. And this is no accident. Europeans are being convinced of the inevitability of a military conflict, without giving only the approximate timing of its start.

What are we? Are we ready for conflict? I do not mean the army of the Russian Federation, which by itself is in full combat readiness, but the population of Russia. Judging by the fact that VTsIOM has already begun to conduct surveys that describe our actions in the event of a war, it is still worth preparing. Even if and just in case, it doesn't hurt. But how to prepare if the Civil Defense system is completely destroyed, and the population is in a state of sweet delusion that we are a nuclear power, which means that any aggression in our direction is excluded? Where are the bomb shelters, the vaults of which are filled with gas masks and first aid supplies? When was the last time civil defense exercises were conducted with the population? Do you know what to do and where to go in case of an air raid alert? A real air raid alert? The Soviet Union was also a nuclear power. Superpower. But at the same time, we practiced both evacuation and fire fighting, studied chemical protection means and knew how to provide first aid. What changed? Have we received 100% guarantees that an exclusively peaceful life awaits Russia, since there are only friends around and aggression is basically excluded? Silly. It is stupid and reckless to think so! If Russia falls, it will fall not defeated on the battlefields, but becoming a victim of betrayal and carelessness of its own citizens, who so believed in their invincibility that they forgot even about elementary security measures.