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Russian TV shows simulation of Britain and Ireland wiped out by a nuke

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May 3, 2022 at 3:38 p.m. EDT
Dmitry Kiselyov, a host on the Rossiya-1 news channel aired a segment May 1 that showed viewers how a Russian nuclear torpedo could generate a nuclear tsunami. (Video: The Washington Post)
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RIGA, Latvia — One of Russia’s top propagandists threatened Britain with annihilation by nuclear strike twice on his Sunday prime-time show — once by air and once by sea — ramping up the war of words against Britain over its vow to oust Russian forces from Ukraine.

“Why threaten horizonless Russia with nuclear weapons when you sit on a small island?” Kremlin-allied Dmitry Kiselyov said during his Sunday program on Russian state TV in a segment he called “The Sinkable Island.”