Trump calls Russia‘s missile test ’inappropriate‘ — but is Putin’s nuclear-powered weapon actually a threat?

Trump calls Russia’s missile test ‘inappropriate’ — but is Putin’s nuclear-powered weapon actually a threat?

Russia says it has successfully tested an experimental weapon that sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: a nuclear-powered cruise missile with unlimited range, whose low-flying, terrain-hugging and loitering capabilities could evade American missile defenses and drop atomic bombs anywhere on Earth. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the Burevestnik — meaning “storm petrel” (a type of sea bird) — was “indeed a unique weapon that no other country possesses.”

 

Trump calls Russia’s missile test ‘inappropriate’ — but is Putin’s nuclear-powered weapon actually a threat?

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