Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has tested the ‘Poseidon’ – a nuclear torpedo that his propagandists have claimed could drown Britain under a 500-metre wave of radioactive seawater.
The Russian president described the test as a ‘great success’ in a briefing to the media.
US and Russian officials have both described it as an entirely new category of retaliatory weapon, capable of triggering radioactive ocean swells to render coastal cities uninhabitable.
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