Has the secret of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hour of need been revealed? The West claims today (Thursday) that the Russian president prepared ahead of time a nuclear shelter which is located deep within the Ural Mountains, in case a nuclear war breaks out.
Mountain ranges are considered one of the best places to shelter from a nuclear attack. Several countries have military installations buried deep under mountains. According to various reports, Putin took care of a personal bunker under Mount Yamantau, deep within the Ural Mountains, along with several other shelters. The Ural Mountains are a long mountain range that stretches across Russia from north to south, and ends just north of the border with Kazakhstan. Mount Yamantau military infrastructure could be seen being built in satellite images in 1995, but Russia refused to detail what it was building when questioned by the US.
“It wouldn’t be surprising if Russia did have such a facility, just like the US has, and mountains are a logical place to put them,” Seth Baum, executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, told Newsweek. “In the event of an intercontinental nuclear war — while mountainous terrain would offer limited protection, even a mountain range would not save the Russian president from the long-term consequences of nuclear destruction. There is no hiding from the ecological Armageddon that a large-scale nuclear conflict would cause,” Thom Davis told Newsweek. , Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Nottingham in the UK.
Why are mountains considered a good hiding place for building bunkers? Simple – the high slopes and low valleys of a mountainous region help absorb the heat and light from the fireball of a nuclear explosion, as well as the initial radiation. In addition, the ground itself will also absorb the radiation and the explosion, so it is better to be underground.
“The safest place in the world in the event of a full-scale nuclear war would be isolated places like Antarctica or the Pacific Islands or the Easter Islands, but even here – the so-called ‘nuclear winter’ cannot be overcome,” Davis said. However, Russia probably laid the foundations of bunkers and shelters in the Urals dating back to the Cold War and World War II, Davis said, making them a logical place for Putin to shelter.