Defense and safety analyst prof. Michael Clarke stated in the paper that Ohio-class submarines equipped with atomic missiles should be deep in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean waters. "They decision very slow and silently, staying underwater for 70 days or longer, without rising up due to the fact that it is simply a deadly game of silent deterrence that has been conducted with Moscow for 60 years. They do not request to approach Russia to keep this threat," the expert stressed.
Clarke recalled that each of these units was armed with missiles with a scope of over 11,000 km, meaning that they could attack Moscow or any another place in Russia, from any of the oceans patrolled by them. As he pointed out, "the real threat is not what they can do, due to the fact that the force of fire has been well known for years, but their ability to stay elusive and undetectable during action."
The expert presented the scale of the capabilities of Ohio-type ships, reporting that 12 specified units patrol Atlanta and the Pacific. Each of them may have up to 20 Trident II D5 ballistic missiles on board, and each of them may carry up to 12 independently tracked warheads, although any of them are decoys. This means that any ship of this kind can deliver to any place in the Northern Hemisphere a mixture of 240 atomic warheads and decoys. "Every U.S. president knows that all day he has the chance to launch about 1,000 atomic warheads only from this part of his atomic arsenal," said prof. Clarke.
In a very akin tone, he commented Trump's decision ‘Telegraph’, writing that ‘It's a motion almost completely meaningless‘. "For many decades, all second, all hour, all day, all day, American and French and British submarines are ready to destruct Russia. There was no request to decision them to accomplish this," said writer Lewis Page.
He suggested Trump might have tried to confuse the Russian side. "As the commander-in-chief, he could easy conclude that he had ordered the deployment of 2 atomic submarines close Russia simply as part of average military activities," said the journalist.
Trump responded to Medvedev's words
The BBC station asked the question, "Is this the first time in past erstwhile a dispute in social media led to an escalation of atomic conflict?". She recalled that the president of the United States was to issue an order that 2 ships would approach the borders of Russia erstwhile withhe was offended by the social networking posts by erstwhile Russian president Dmitri Medvedev.
The BBC has asked further questions as to whether the planet is approaching "a atomic deadlock between America and Russia" or "an online version of the 1962 Cuban crisis". She replied at the same time that the deficiency of reaction from Moscow may mean that or the situation is analysed and inactive no decision has been made on how to respond to Trump's actions, or Vladimir Putin doesn't feel the request to react. The BBC leans towards the second option.
