The Russian leader’s vaunting of his arsenal was mainly approximately attention-seeking,but dangerous developments are shaking up nuclear policyVladimir Putin is famous for taking his clothes off in public. But the latest display of bare power by Russia’s president was delivered fully clothed before a well-dressed, adoring audience in a Moscow exhibition centre. It was fairly a exhibit. In what amounted to a state of the nation address, and he hailed a new generation of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles,underwater drones and nuclear-powered cruise missiles.
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Source: guardian.co.uk