communications, the precursor of the mobile phone, has become a weapon of terrible murder. on tuesday, september 17, in different parts of lebanon , pagers belonging to hezbollah supporters began to explode simultaneously. as a result, more than 10 people were killed and about 3,000 were injured in one way or another, both western and arab media claim that the detonator was an incoming message in arabic, which looked like a message from the top leadership of hezbollah. israel was almost immediately suspected of sabotage, but versions there were various theories about what was happening. reuters sources believe that israeli intelligence massat could have placed a circuit board containing an explosive in the device, which is very difficult to detect even with a scanner. others believe that the explosives were built into the power supplies.

put forward the hypothesis that israel created a front company to manufacture pagers with explosives, which were then delivered to lebanon, the pagers themselves, with the taiwanese brand gold apollo, were assembled in hungary, the founder of this company xu qingguang said, that the devices in lebanon were made in europe, the company that has the rights to use the brand is a company: consulting, which is based in budapest. in turn, its anonymous representative said that his company only provides consulting services and has never produced pagers. the next day, wednesday, september 18, in different areas of lebanon, again, only supporters and members of hezbollah, portable radios icv-82, made by the japanese company icom, began to explode. again, dozens of people died and about. 450 were injured.

the radios were delivered to lebanon along with explosive pagers. aicom reported that this model was discontinued 10 years ago. at the same time , the production of batteries for them was stopped. at the same time, the absence of holograms on the exploded radios means that they could have been fakes, of which there are many in lebanon. it seems to me that.

they were carrying a mined mobile phone and supposedly talking to their father, when he took this phone, it exploded in his ear, but still the main goal of such an action...

as if to initiate an internal investigation, that is, israel at the last moment, in order not to lose this trump card, in general, initiated this action, disruption of control was probably also the goal, naturally this led to complete to complete paralysis. internal communications, that is, you can not trust mobile phones, as we were told in february, you can not trust radio stations, you can not trust pagers, you can not trust anything to anyone or anything, with the help of cross-references to

further expand the database of potential members, about active members of isbeli, that is , for example, these are records of patients who began to arrive at... the hospital over the past 2 days, these are video materials, these are social networks, this pool is quite easily collected in cross-references and thus active members of hezbollah are identified. chip god and his escalation in the middle east, on a car with a rocket launcher it is written "hezbollah", the zionist regime lives in fear that we... we can strike at any minute, - says the militant. the rest is clear without comments. argentine graphic artist and artist becks, a very unusual perception of exploding pagers. bee-bee, such a sound the device makes, and also often abbreviate the name

of the prime minister of israel, benjamin nitayahu, bibi. cartoon characters in the orner brothers company, a cunning coyot and a road runner, a typical cartoon scene from. tom stiglich. coyote represents hezbollah, and the runner is israel and says beep-beep, as the cartoon character did. middle eastern art - a very artistic perception of events and conflicts in the region by mark de angelis from italy. creative goods from the gloomy priest - one of the images of death. should we expect a big war in the region now? the main policy of iran, the leadership of iran is not to protect the rights of the palestinian people, it is not even hezbollah, although it is the closest ally in the region, it is to preserve the current, existing regime in iran, this is the main priority, they understand perfectly well that if

a big war begins, their internal stability can be shaken more, so they ... even such a term: strategic patience, this is their strategically written in their strategic documents, that is, strategic patient, they are trying with all their might not to bring it to a major war, you understand perfectly well that the potential risks to the stability of their regime and to the existence of their regime are quite large, that is why they are so willing to use these proxies. in the form of hezbollah, in the form of the houthis, in the form of anyone, it is very important for israel, even more important than the war in gaza - is that 80,000 people evacuated from the north have returned to their homes, this is huge - pressure on the israeli leadership, these 80,000

people are exerting, they are trying with all their might, by any means, even if it comes to open military action. with hezbollah, to close this gestalt in the north, so that people can return to their homes, so will the current leadership go to military action here sooner? one can expect, even, i can expect, for example, that if they cannot convince hezbollah in any way, even through these pagers, then this could lead to tragic consequences, that is, to open military action. behind big politics people are lost, people who have nothing to do with the confrontation suffer, including children. beirut was once one of the most prosperous beautiful cities in the mediterranean. but now modern development is paralyzed. first of all, we need

peace, and then we can discuss the development of the country and the capital. beirut needs the same as any city. a healthy environment, environmentally friendly public transport, a smart city with digital technologies, everything like everyone else. but we have been living in chaos for a long time, and now there are new problems with israel and other countries.

today we are lucky, the new land accepts, after the abnormally hot moscow autumn +7 here it feels like winter cold, the weather on the archipelago has its own calendar, for 3 months a year the sun does not set here, but the polar night lasts 70 days, you have to love it. 13 military construction battalions landed on the ocean with a mission that even today seems difficult to accomplish, in the shortest possible time

to adapt it for the life and work of people who will have to hide the nuclear shield. soviet specialists joked, the new land, as if someone had specially created it for testing. the terrain, the remoteness of the archipelago from the mainland, its deep- water bays, all this made it possible to conduct 132 nuclear explosions here, their total power amounted to 94% of all those produced. on the territory of the ussr. explosion. a huge fireball was formed, the power of which is much brighter than the sun. the ball turns into a colossal, glowing dome. the terrible force confuses the arrival of the shock wave. in october of the first at the dry nose test site, the most powerful in history.

where it is intended, then we can break our own windows, therefore, it means, they fired torpedoes, dropped thermonuclear bombs, tested tactical, operational-tactical weapons, all nuclear charges showed nominal power and higher than nominal, and the carriers delivered nuclear charges to the targets, the last nuclear explosion on the archipelago thundered in the early nineties, after...

the test site is ready to resume full-scale testing activities, it is ready in full, the laboratory and testing are ready base, the personnel are ready, if the order comes, we will begin testing at any moment. readiness on the archipelago there is an anti-terror unit, now the guys are conducting training, despite the fact that they are not in the zone of a special military operation, all the experience that the russian army uses there, it is taken into service here. they are ready to repel both an attack from the sea, as well as attacks by enemy dons. the island, of course, is for men, but there is also a lot for women here, a beauty procedure, they immediately gave an apartment, service housing, in basically at 20 years old, it's great that such an opportunity is immediately provided, where you can live, start a family. belush guba - the capital

of the new land, like on a submarine, everyone knows each other by sight, there are several short streets and bright houses, so that ... houses for the islanders are built taking into account the harsh climatic conditions, wind direction on such special piles, they are buried 25-30 m underground, first comes the soil, and then permafrost, if the houses were not built at such a height, they would be covered with snow. within the framework northern delivery ships of the russian ministry of defense supply the archipelago with food and fuel, planes deliver fresh fruits and vegetables to children every month. cases and what, the testing ground can remain in autonomous mode for a whole year. the local school and kindergarten are the northernmost in russia, playgrounds, a swimming pool, arboretum, a saline cave and fatari, where children sunbathe during the polar night, all this was built by hand, seagulls scream, the wind howls, black rocks dance, here is a portrait of a new land, where my wind rages, despite the nucleus.

in the past, the radiation level on novaya zemlya is no higher than in moscow. here, they are afraid not of radiation, but of visits from uninvited guests. a military drone has already recorded the seventh polar bear during our trip. the owners of the tundra are not afraid of people, they come to the village in search of food, but the locals know that you can’t feed them, otherwise they won’t leave you alone. bears come, well, we cope. first of all, the emergency service, we inform them, then we take the children out by transport. the military helps us clean the playgrounds, well, of course, they provide all possible assistance. novaya zemlya often called the island of flying dogs. up to 150 assault days are recorded here per year. these comrades roam the entire archipelago, they are loyal guards protecting people from polar bears, immediately warning of their approach. but the most important thing is that the poor fellows fly away when the wind accelerates to 50 m/s.

a military pilot, a sailor, a miner scientist, four steles melted by explosions, as a reminder of who stood at the origins. the northernmost testing ground in russia will celebrate its seventieth anniversary all year long, in a big way. the black islands will once again gather those for whom the most closed object on the map of russia is no longer a terrorist incognito. sofia sergieva, daniel morgulya, international review, novaya zemlya. the testing ground is now often remembered against the backdrop of the ukrainian escalation. the russian president made it clear that kiev's use of long-range weapons against targets deep in russian territory is equivalent to nato entering the war, and provides for a full range of military-technical responses, including, presumably, a nuclear one. in the west, they are calling on

the russian bluff not to be believed, saying not to dare, but loudly announce the lifting of restrictions on use. until the game of nerves became the basis of deterrence, once conventional, then nuclear, and now some kind of combined, like everything else. there is no less psychology here than logic. let's talk about this specific phenomenon with alexey krivopalov, from immo. alexey, hello, good afternoon. hello. western publications are now openly writing that russia threatened from the very beginning, drew red lines. did nothing to, so to speak, preserve them, which means there is no need to be afraid, then so, based on our experience of confrontations, what can we say, that we missed this moment, or still, how to make threats convincing? the red lines of the imagination of the american leadership are one thing, the red lines of the imagination of the kremlin leadership are another, the red lines of the imagination,

god forgive me, of russian public opinion, are a third and, as in euclidean geometry, these parallel lines do not... aimed at washington do not achieve the goal for the simple reason that, well, except for the complete epochondriacs there in the west, no one does this does not accept the argumentation for the simple reason that the professional, on whom the decision actually depends, military-political circles know very well that russia and the russian army have far from exhausted their ability to crush the enemy on the battlefield by conventional

means, and therefore any transparent mentions of special ammunition, tactical nuclear weapons, strategic nuclear weapons, are understood there as a theatrical pose, as a figure of speech, as some kind of rhetorical turns of phrase, and they react to this accordingly stanislavsky, that is, do not believe.

as for the broad interpretation, and what is there, a threat to the existence of the state, this is a direct consequence, in my opinion, of the trauma of the ninety-first year, here are attempts at such a broad interpretation, because let us remember the night from december 25 to 26 , 1991, the empire perishes, mikhail sergeyevich gorbachev collects his things and leaves us, a state catastrophe occurs, however, on that night the rvs.

looked at this and decided that it is not necessary, here you said about the rates, here if in these categories, what were the stakes then and how high were they? the cuban missile crisis

is fundamentally different from today in the following way: today, strategic stability is not threatened, in terms of the impunity of a retaliatory strike, everything is still normal. khrushchev, 62 years ago, was in a much more dangerous situation. he had no strategic stability, the range of conditions under which he could inflict unacceptable damage on the united states was very narrow, much narrower than today, for example, if we consider four basic modes of using a nuclear arsenal, a counterforce strike, well, strategic preemption, an attempt to shoot nuclear weapons on another continent, a technical preemption mode, that is, in response, shooting in response to aggressive preparations, the third option is classic retaliation and the fourth option is the so -called response to a counter strike, so of the four potential options at khrushchev's disposal there was only option number two: the technical preemption mode, because of the hopeless, defeated balance of power, he could inflict

unacceptable damage only if he, the motto of the strategic missile forces, the beginning of the sixties, only if, if he had not been late to strike first, yeah, all other options were closed, the response to a counterstrike was unrealistic at the level of technology of the early sixties, a counterforce strike is madness, because we have four missiles, and they have many more airfields and missile silos, the retaliatory strike mode was also closed, because in the event of the absorption of the first american strike from our strategic intercontinental nuclear there would have been no weapons left, he took a very, very big risk, in the end , the result that he got was basically favorable, the exchange of the soviet cuban group for the american group in turkey, it was acceptable, now... it's really a very heated moment, it's clear that it's fundamentally different from before that era, but here's the discussion itself, now we're digressing from the specifics, here in

theory after all. perhaps limited, well, like a limited exchange, then everything, that means we've understood everything here, let's now to agree, because we were brought up , my generation, i grew up there in the seventies, eighties, that if something happens just once, then that's it, then total war, the destruction of all humanity, not all, the northern hemisphere, it will be thoroughly devastated, as for the escalation ladder, as for... the theory of limited nuclear war, that's all that was invented by the americans at the turn of the fifties and sixties, first within the walls of the rant corporation by civilian scientists and analysts, then it was gradually extrapolated to the civilian administration in the pentagon under secretary robert mcnamara, all these doctrines of limited use, flexible use , herman kahn's escalation ladder, it was all...

logic, paradoxical logic, but the fact is that when vietnam began, then at the non-nuclear vietnamese test site, all these theories of controlled escalation all went to hell. 70 years ago, at the totsky test site in the orenburg region, in an atmosphere of the strictest secrecy , the only combined arms exercises in the history of the ussr were held with the use of nuclear weapons. the terrain of this area resembled western... europe, where they would probably have to fight. under the leadership of marshal zhukov, the rds-2 atomic bomb, with a yield of 40 kilotons, twice as powerful as the one dropped on nagasaki, was detonated 350 m from the ground. equipment, weapons and animals were positioned around the epicenter, and troops in protective suits waited in shelters. the nuclear flu rose to a height of 6 km. equipment that was located

at... a distance from the epicenter was pressed into the ground and melted. the centuries-old forest at the epicenter disappeared, and only animals remained only ashes and fragments of hooves. it would seem that the effectiveness of nuclear weapons is obvious. in addition, the most powerful artillery preparation and aerial bombardment since the storming of berlin began at the same time. but the exercises showed a completely different result. an atomic explosion in itself does not bring automatic victory and is not solved. the problem of breaking through the defense, after the explosion, infantrymen in protective equipment went on the offensive against the positions of the imaginary enemy, it was impossible to throw a bomb at the forward positions, it was possible to hit their own, critical tanks were damaged only within a radius of 300 m from the epicenter. at the front lines, the effect of the explosion was blurred, minefields did not burn in the radiation, they had to be blown up,

and, if you believe the declassified. in the fifties , eight military exercises with the use of nuclear weapons were held at the nevada test site, and during each of them from five to 19 explosions were carried out, thousands of american soldiers were regularly exposed to radiation in conditions close to combat. in positions, they acted without protection in standard desert uniform. for each participant in the experiment, statistics were entered, the effect of which bomb when he was exposed.

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