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Russia Plans Nuclear Interception of Meteorites – Video

Created: 2013-03-13 08:01 EST

Using nuclear weapons against a meteorite threat to the planet was discussed in the meeting held by the Russian Federation Council on Tuesday.

[Boris Shustov, Director, Russian Academy of Sciences]:
“The unexpected appearance of out-of-space objects close to the Earth is not an exception but a typical situation and we may have very little time to make a decision to counteract.”
Officials from the Russian nuclear corporation Roscosmos, the defense and foreign ministries took part in the meeting.
Oleg Shubin is the deputy director for nuclear weapons management at Rosatom.
[Oleg Shubin, Director for Nuclear Weapons Management]:
“Now we understand the technologies that can provide us with a sub-surface nuclear explosion within a meteorite body. At the same time, such an explosion, depending on the depth of the sub-surface explosion, can be equivalent to 10 to 50 megatons.”
He went on to explain what would happen.
[Oleg Shubin, Director for Nuclear Weapons Management]:
“The effect of such an interception will make a phenomenal and beautiful show in the sky but still it will be safe for people. We will have a very limited amount of time to prevent the collision. About a year, including the launch of an interceptor and separating fragments in space. It’s also worth mentioning that an interception of a meteorite with a size of one kilometer will need the use of nuclear explosive devices with a capacity well exceeding the megaton class.”
Head of Russian Federal Space Agency, Vladimir Popovkin, who also took part in the conference, said that Russia is planning to build a system that is meant to protect the Earth from meteorites.
The project, called “Citadel”, would cost about 500 million U.S. dollars, and can only be implemented with the help of international cooperation.
[Vladimir Popovkin, Russian Federal Space Agency Head]:
“In our opinion it’s necessary to develop documents on the international level that will avoid testing and deployment of weapons in space under the cover of the fight against cometic-meteorite attack.”
The meeting comes a month after a meteorite entered the Earth’s atmosphere undetected and crashed in Russia’s Urals, injuring more than one thousand people.
Video on link…..
http://ntdtv.org/en/news/world/europe/2013-03-13/russia-plans-nuclear-interception-of-meteorites.html

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