Putin's nuclear slideshow reveals Russia's naked ambitions
The Russian leader’s vaunting of his arsenal was mainly about attention-seeking, but dangerous developments are shaking up nuclear policy
by Simon Tisdall
Mar 02, 2018
2 minutes
Vladimir Putin is famous for taking his clothes off in public. But the latest display of naked power by Russia’s president was delivered fully clothed before a well-dressed, adoring audience in a Moscow exhibition centre.
It was quite a show. In what amounted to a state-of-the-nation address, he hailed a new generation of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles, underwater drones and nuclear-powered cruise missiles.
Russia’s revamped arsenal would prove “invincible”, Putin declared. US
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