In his annual state of the nation address on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile that he claimed could fly indefinitely and deliver a warhead to any point on the earth’s surface.
The weapon seems so fantastical that some analysts simply didn’t believe the initial reports of the missile that appeared on social media early Thursday.
“I had my doubts,” says Pavel Podvig, who runs the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces blog.
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