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The Soviets had (and the Russians still maintain) the one anti-ballistic missile system allowed by treaty. It's emplaced all around Moscow. In addition, Sovie
by chiph 13y ago
The Soviets had (and the Russians still maintain) the one anti-ballistic missile system allowed by treaty. It's emplaced all around Moscow. In addition, Soviet leadership had constructed a series of deep bunkers and transport systems under Moscow -- there is/was another subway system underneath the civilian Moscow system for Kremlin leadership to use.
So should a missile (of several targeted against Moscow) make it through the ABM system, it would still have to destroy a very hard target. And so you need a big bomb to ensure destruction.
- grannyg00se 13y agoInteresting. That sounds like urban myth material - a special subway under the subway. But from my limited knowledge, bigger and bigger nukes wouldn't make a difference against deep hardened bunkers since they don't penetrate before detonation. When you look at pictures of atomic bomb damage you don't see deep craters, you see a wide area of surface level damage.
- enraged_camel 13y ago>>Interesting. That sounds like urban myth material - a special subway under the subway. You need to watch Ghostbusters II. :)
- cynwoody 13y agoThere was a special subway line, Metro 2†, which ran from the Kremlin to Khodynka Airfield, Moscow's downtown airport, next to GRU HQ. In the event of an imminent threat, the Soviet leadership would have hopped onto Metro 2, been transported to Khodynka, and been flown from there to a secure command post somewhere in the Urals. †http://books.google.com/books?id=rsB-5-e0RwgC&pg=PA65&dq=subway+kremlin+khodynka&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tHg2UpqrAba14AP3qoDoBQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=subway%20kremlin%20khodynka&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=rsB-5-e0RwgC&pg=PA65&dq=sub... Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-2