Russian Lawmaker Urges Mock Nuclear Strikes on Pentagon, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower to ‘Scare the West’
A Russian lawmaker has called on the Defense Ministry to stage mock nuclear strikes on replicas of famous Western landmarks – including the Pentagon, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower – to “scare the West” and show Moscow’s readiness for escalation.
Mikhail Sheremet, a member of the State Duma’s security committee, said Russia should stop “playing the peacemaker” and instead demonstrate its nuclear might through symbolic drills.
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“It’s time to build mock versions of the Pentagon, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower and deliver a retaliatory nuclear strike on these magnificent targets,” Sheremet told the news outlet News.ru.
“Only such language from the recent past will be understood by Russia’s enemies and cool their radioactive zeal for many years.”
His comments came days after President Vladimir Putin ordered the Defense Ministry and other agencies to prepare proposals for resuming nuclear testing – for the first time in 35 years.
Putin said Russia remains committed to the global treaty banning such tests but is ready to respond if other countries break it.
The order followed US President Donald Trump’s recent comments that the United States might resume nuclear testing.
Last week, Trump said Washington was planning to conduct “some testing,” without clarifying whether they would include underground explosions like those held during the Cold War – a practice the US halted in 1992.
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Trump said: “Other countries do it. If they’re going to do it, we’re going to do it. I’m not going to say here.”
Trump’s claim is inaccurate when referring to explosive nuclear testing.
While Russia continues to test nuclear-capable delivery systems and North Korea has launched missiles that could carry nuclear warheads, North Korea is the only nation to have conducted an actual nuclear explosive test since the 1990s.
At a recent Security Council meeting, Defense Minister Andrey Belousov backed the idea of restarting full-scale nuclear test preparations “immediately,” citing the readiness of testing facilities on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
Meanwhile, Foreign Intelligence Service chief Sergey Naryshkin said Russian diplomats had asked Washington to clarify Trump’s remarks but received no substantive response.
