Russia's 'Professor Doomsday' declares nuclear missiles a 'gift from God' and they 'must be used'

An adviser to Vladimir Putin has called nuclear weapons a 'gift from God' and demanded that they must be used in order to 'not anger' Him. 

Sergei Karaganov, who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy and is known in Russia as Professor Doomsday, said: 'The fact that we have nuclear weapons is the result of the intervention of the Almighty. We must not anger God. And that's why we must actively use the weapons that he gave us for self-salvation.'

He also declared that failure to actively use nuclear weapons is a sin against the Soviet and Russian people, noting how several lost their lives in order for the country to be in possession of them. 

The trigger-happy professor explained that God 'somehow prevented the Germans, who were ahead of everyone, from acquiring' nuclear weapons.

'Then he helped us, with the hands of Oppenheimer [and] Fuchs.

'In this way, he [God] saved humanity.'

J. Robert Oppenheimer was known as the 'father of the atomic bomb,' serving as scientific director of the Manhattan Project, which saw the development of the first nuclear weapons in the Second World War.

This led to the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that  led to Japan's surrender and ultimately ended the war.

In doing so, however, hundreds of thousands of people were killed. 

Oppenheimer later expressed deep moral concerns about nuclear weapons and became an advocate for international arms control.

German-born Fuchs, meanwhile, worked on the Manhattan Project but was a Soviet spy and passed nuclear bomb secrets to Moscow, helping the USSR develop its own nuclear arsenal.

He was subsequently jailed in Britain before moving to East Germany after his release.

But what Karaganov did not mention was the real reason the Nazis did not get a hold of the A bomb first.

According to The Article, German scientists did not use graphite as the moderator when developing the bomb and also overestimated the critical mass of uranium needed to create an explosion, which ultimately hindered them from creating the atomic weapon.

Karaganov has previously claimed that Putin was sent by God to save the world.

'In my conversation with Vladimir [Putin], I dared to point out that his task is not only to win the war and save Russia but also to save the world,' he said.

Karaganov - who owns a luxury bolthole apartment in the heart of Venice and another in Berlin - told Putin in June: 'And at some point God Almighty took pity on us [and you arrived].

'Now Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] you have a difficult task.

'Not only to win, but also to save the world which is sliding and being pushed into a World War.'

He said: 'We are not fighting against Ukraine and the unfortunate deluded Ukrainians, thrown into the meat grinder by their corrupt elite and its [Western] masters.

'We are fighting against the West.

'Of course, we will strike the Ukrainian army because it is essentially mercenary, but our main goal is to sober up and force the West to retreat.'

Karaganov's comments come after Putin this week staged a mock nuclear war when he launched scores of missiles capable of unleashing a 'massive' strike in a stark warning to the West. 

The major new exercises spanned Russia, with Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launches from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the northwest to the Kura test range in Kamchatka in the far east.

Defence Minister Andrei Belousov warned the West that the exercise was to show how Russia could deliver 'a massive nuclear strike by strategic offensive forces in response to a nuclear strike by the enemy'.