Putin Shows Off New Nuclear Weapons, Warns West to ‘Listen’
- Western efforts to ‘contain Russia’ have failed, Putin says
- With videos, leader shows arms could overcome U.S. defenses
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Vladimir Putin used his state-of-the-nation speech to deliver a stern warning to the U.S. that Russia has a series of new high-technology nuclear weapons that he said can overcome any defenses.
“Efforts to contain Russia have failed, face it,” Putin said in a nearly two-hour address he illustrated with video clips of the new arms, which included underwater drones, intercontinental missiles and a hypersonic system he said “heads for its target like a meteorite.”