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- Russia has built a new 100-megaton underwater nuclear doomsday device and repeatedly threatened the US with it.
- The device goes beyond traditional ideas of nuclear warfighting and poses a direct threat to the future of human or life on Earth.
- Nobody has ever built a weapon like this before because there's almost no military utility to so badly destroying the world.
- But an expert on nuclear strategy told Business Insider the weapon may have a larger role in helping Russian President Vladimir Putin break down NATO with the threat of nuclear destruction.
Ever since 2015 when images of a Russian nuclear torpedo first leaked on state television, the world has asked itself why Moscow would build a weapon that could potentially end all life on Earth.
While all nuclear weapons can kill thousands in the blink of an eye and leave radiation poisoning the environment for years to come, Russia's new doomsday device, called the "Poseidon," takes steps to maximize this effect.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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from Business Insider https://read.bi/2N111pR
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