Konstantin Sivkov made the outrageous comments to the Russian trade newspaper VPK News, claiming that NATO aggression against his country called for "the complete destruction of the enemy". Sivkov claimed that by using nuclear weapons at Yellowstone in conjunction with bombing along the San Andreas fault in California, the devastating consequences would simply "disappear the United States as a country."
Sivkov went into chilling detail about the maniacal plan, saying "Geologists believe that the Yellowstone super volcano could explode at any moment. There are signs of growing activity there. Therefore it suffices to push the relatively small, for example the impact of the munition megaton class to initiate an eruption." (Translated to English by the Sydney Morning Herald.) He also claims that nuclear weapons detonating along California's San Andreas fault line would create massive earthquakes, leveling Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as causing enormous tsunamis that would rush hundreds of miles inland. The overwhelming disasters would crumble the American economy and leave the nation's infrastructure in ruins.
It has been theorized that an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano caldera in Wyoming would kill potentially millions of people in the initial blast alone. Millions more would die as tons of choking volcanic ash fell across a majority of the country, which would blot out the sun for days, weeks or even months. Although the United States and Canada would bear the brunt of such a disaster, the eruption would eventually affect the entire planet, cooling the atmosphere, limiting the amount of sunlight that would reach the earth, and devastating essential crops, causing hundreds of millions-if not billions-more people to die from starvation.
In a tit for tat scenario, the United States could also potentially nuke Russia's own dangerous volcano system, located in the Kamchatka Peninsula of Siberia. 250 million years ago, a volcanic super-system erupted in the region, known as the Siberian Traps. The eruption went on for millions of years and many scientists believe caused the Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as The Great Dying, which saw 85% of all life on Earth disappear.