Megyn Kelly Grills Vladimir Putin on Russian Nuclear Weapons Tests

Professor Mark Edele, from the University of Melbourne’s School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, said much of Mr Putin’s show of strength was about the March 18 elections.

Steven Pifer, a former State Department Foreign Service officer who worked with Russia and Ukraine, tweeted that though Putin “discussed some worrisome new weapons“, his speech was “first and foremost” aimed at the Russian public in anticipation of the upcoming election. “One-hundred percent you do, and people who are well-educated, who must understand that we, Russia, can not prosecute anyone if they have not violated Russian law”. “Are we in a new arms race right now?”

Putin said the new missile is “like a fireball guided to its target” and also announced other state-of-the-art weapons in his address in Moscow.

Asked if Putin is bluffing, Baron said there was more to be concerned about. “Practically invulnerable”, according to Putin. A hypersonic nuclear missile 20 times faster than the speed of sound.

Western analysts doubt there is anything revolutionary in the Russian arsenal. “We need to make sure we have a credible nuclear deterrent and we are confident we are prepared to defend this nation no matter what”, said White.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin denied accusations that his country intends to spark a new Cold War, NBC News reported. Putin’s remarks seem unlikely to change that equation or divert the Trump Administration from its path toward modernising the full USA nuclear arsenal at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars while also expanding missile defences.

During Putin’s address, he boasted of Russia’s new supersonic nuclear weapon, saying the missile is “invulnerable to enemy interception” and can’t be tracked by anti-missile systems.

Those claims are no bluff or idle threat, Professor Muraviev said, and are a further sign the world is locked in a military standoff more risky than the Cold War.

Although Putin said his announcement was meant to get the attention of the U.S., he also said he was open to talks with Washington.

Nothing has changed. It would still take an act of unbelievable idiocy from one side or the other to trigger a nuclear war, and the only difference today is that if it happens, we might be killed by slightly better weapons.

Hayden, who also served as the head of the National Security Agency under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, maintained that Trump “admires the way Putin does business”.

But in his remarks, Putin maintained that Russia’s military posture is purely defensive in nature.

We aren’t threatening anyone, we aren’t going to attack anyone, we aren’t going to take anything from anyone. “Russia will only retaliate if it is attacked”.

Particularly, Putin said that Russian Federation had created and started mass production of the hypersonic weapon Avangard, which is able of carrying out intercontinental flights at the hypersonic speed of Mach 20 and higher.