Better bombing, through better science

Welcome back to your Cold War years.

While Vladimir Putin re-arranges the Russian government, names a new and apparently faithful prime minister and sets a course for his nation, his military leaders were busy back in the lab working on a new generation of weapons.

The hard working scientists in the Kremlin's weapons labs have announced that they have developed what they call the world's most powerful non-nuclear weapon!

Upstaging their American competitors in the world of making a bigger bomb, the Russians have trumpeted their creation as the Father of all Bombs - advising that the latest item in the Kremlin's arsenal is four times more powerful than the US's Mother of all Bombs.



The folks up in the lab advise that this new generation of weaponry is truly wonderous, "The results of tests of the aviation explosive device that has been created have shown that it is comparable with nuclear weapons in its efficiency and potential,".

I guess it's a bigger bang for your bucks, but without all that nasty nuclear fall out.

Somewhere someone is moving those hours on the doomsday clock a little closer to the midnight hour, one assumes that this is what they had in mind when they came up with the catchy phrase Mutually Assured Desctruction Devices .