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       Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, has recently been bragging about their new Status-6 Poseidon nuclear armed underwater drone. This new drone torpedo is reported to employ sophisticated stealth systems that will render it invisible to detection. It is supposed to have intercontinental range and carry a one hundred megaton warhead. It will be able to sail undetected into an enemy harbor and detonate, causing a tsunami that will utterly destroy the port and surrounding city.
       Russia recently launched a new submarine named the Belogrod from the Sevmash shipyards in northern Russia. This new submarine will reportedly carry six of the new Poseidon nuclear armed underwater drones. The construction of the Belgogrod began in 1992 as a huge Oscar II-class nuclear submarine. Construction was halted in 1997 because of lack of funds. Construction was restarted in 2010.
       The United Shipbuilding Corporation in Russia first announced that the Belgorod had been redesigned to be a research ship that could carry underwater drones for exploration, search and rescue. Russian defense analysts estimated that the Belgorod would be an elongated version of the Oscar II-class with a length of over six hundred feet. This makes it the biggest submarine ever launched by Russia.
       Construction of the Belgorod will be finished while the vessel is afloat. The nuclear reactor that will power the Belgorod will undergo testing later this year. Sea trials are scheduled for 2020 and, if all goes well, the Belgorod will enter service at the end of 2020. Putin says that Russia is creating these new nuclear weapons in retaliation for the U.S. placing missiles in Europe.
       Some military analysts say that the Poseidon is a “bizarre novelty” and has limited values as a strategic weapon. The Russians claim that the Poseidon can travel at one hundred and fifteen miles per hour at a depth of a kilometer. However, it could take weeks to travel to a distant target. Meanwhile, the Russian arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles can reach any target on Earth in thirty minutes. It would be much cheaper and reliable for Russia to build more ICBMs to overwhelm any U.S. defense than to waste money on a few huge subs that can only carry a few Poseidons each. The U.S. military is using these new Russian weapons systems as a justification for the upgrading of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
       The most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated on Earth was created by the Soviet Union. It was called the Tsar and it created a fifty-megaton explosion. This is more than three-thousand times the power of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. It has been estimated that the detonation of a single ten-megaton nuclear bomb could cause severe weather disturbances all over the world. If that is a case, then the detonation of a 100 megaton nuclear bomb could pose a threat to the future of the human race. Its use would be suicidal for Russia.