Sinister Russian plot to destroy the city of London using ‘very powerful’ nuclear bombs has been revealed.
British
atomic expert William Penney, who helped develop the UK’s first atomic
bomb, exposed the destructive scheme in a top-secret letter sent in
1954.
He
warned the Atomic Energy Authority chairman Edwin Plowden that the
Russians were prepared to launch the devastating assault on the capital
city.
‘Instead of
using, say, 32 bombs on London, they would probably use three, four or
five very powerful ones which would give the same total damage but need
not be aimed accurately,’ he wrote.
The
series of earth-shattering explosions would have caused ‘complete
destruction’ for three miles in every direction from the centre of the
blast, covering an area of nearly 30 miles.
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