Russia tests new ‘superweapon’

Russia tested Poseidon, its new nuclear underwater drone, it announced yesterday. Launched by submarines and engineered “to explode near coastlines and unleash a powerful radioactive tsunami,” the 110-ton weapon can travel an astonishing 124 mph underwater. Poseidon was first announced by Vladimir Putin in 2018 as one of six “superweapons.” The drone carries a nuclear warhead with power “significantly higher than that of our most advanced Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile,” according to Putin. Poseidon’s testing is the latest in a string of recent Russian weaponry tests, provoking Europe to militarize and unify.