https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-tsunamis-caused-nuke-strikes-13782708
Huge tsunamis caused by nuke strikes 'will wipe out West', Russian media claims
Military media in Moscow say the chilling schemes could wipe out western Europe, Britain and Washington DC but experts in Russia dismissed claims as 'nonsense'
A wave of super-tsunamis caused by a Russian nuke attack could 'wipe out the West', according to military media reports in Moscow.
The claims were made in the Russian military weekly-newspaper '
Military Industrial Courier' in its latest issue which also feature Vladimir Putin on its front page.
According to the publication, Russia has the capability to blast the Snæfellsjökull volcano in Iceland with a thermonuclear weapon.
The paper says the attack on the 4,744ft peak would create a tsunami so large it could sink the American capital Washington DC.
In another bleak scenario, the paper claims Russia could also strike the island of Jan Mayen in the Arctic Ocean swamping western Europe.
But the article has been condemned by many experts in the main news outlets in Russia saying the proposals were scandalous, not based on scientific evidence and irresponsible.
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