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Russia has developed a new array of nuclear weapons that are invincible, according to President Vladimir Putin.
Link Source 1 (BBC News): http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43239331
Link Source 2 (CNN News): https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/europe/putin-nuclear-missile-video-florida/index.html
Link Source 3 (LA Times) : http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-russia-nuclear-weapons-20180301-story.html
Link Source 4 (Washington Post) : https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.43f628744a67
One system Mr Putin described included a "low-flying, difficult-to-spot cruise missile... with a practically unlimited range and an unpredictable flight path, which can bypass lines of interception and is invincible in the face of all existing and future systems of both missile defence and air defence".
Another was a submarine-launched, long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
During the two-hour televised speech to a joint sitting of both houses of parliament, he said the weapons were a response to US development of its missile defence system.
The US State Department said it was "certainly unfortunate to have watched the video animation that depicted a nuclear attack on the United States" - adding that it was not "the behaviour of a responsible international player".
President Putin's emphasis on a strong Russia modernising its nuclear arsenal is a reflection of similar statements over recent months from his US counterpart Donald Trump.
In his remarks, Mr Putin highlighted the development of two new nuclear delivery systems, which, he said, could evade US anti-ballistic missile defences.
This is essentially because neither of them are ballistic missiles, which are fired out of the atmosphere in a high-arcing trajectory.
One - effectively a very long-range nuclear-tipped torpedo - has been rumoured to be under development since Soviet days but is now seen by US analysts as a credible threat.
The second system - described by Mr Putin as a cruise missile - looks to be more of a work in progress and may be a kind of very high-speed "hypersonic" system - described by one arms control expert as a "glider on steroids" - that again could evade existing anti-missile defences.
China and the US are also working on similar systems of their own.
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Link Source 1 (BBC News): http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43239331
Link Source 2 (CNN News): https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/europe/putin-nuclear-missile-video-florida/index.html
Link Source 3 (LA Times) : http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-russia-nuclear-weapons-20180301-story.html
Link Source 4 (Washington Post) : https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.43f628744a67
One system Mr Putin described included a "low-flying, difficult-to-spot cruise missile... with a practically unlimited range and an unpredictable flight path, which can bypass lines of interception and is invincible in the face of all existing and future systems of both missile defence and air defence".
Another was a submarine-launched, long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
During the two-hour televised speech to a joint sitting of both houses of parliament, he said the weapons were a response to US development of its missile defence system.
The US State Department said it was "certainly unfortunate to have watched the video animation that depicted a nuclear attack on the United States" - adding that it was not "the behaviour of a responsible international player".
President Putin's emphasis on a strong Russia modernising its nuclear arsenal is a reflection of similar statements over recent months from his US counterpart Donald Trump.
In his remarks, Mr Putin highlighted the development of two new nuclear delivery systems, which, he said, could evade US anti-ballistic missile defences.
This is essentially because neither of them are ballistic missiles, which are fired out of the atmosphere in a high-arcing trajectory.
One - effectively a very long-range nuclear-tipped torpedo - has been rumoured to be under development since Soviet days but is now seen by US analysts as a credible threat.
The second system - described by Mr Putin as a cruise missile - looks to be more of a work in progress and may be a kind of very high-speed "hypersonic" system - described by one arms control expert as a "glider on steroids" - that again could evade existing anti-missile defences.
China and the US are also working on similar systems of their own.
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