The first link in the article is quite interesting (the current project is named Status-6) https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/12/putins-doomsday-machine-nuclear

The first link in the article is quite interesting (the current project is named Status-6) https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/12/putins-doomsday-machine-nuclear-weapon-us-russia/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/12/putins-doomsday-machine... also Russian wikipedia has a longer article on this beast https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%81-6 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83... it says that this contraption is straight out of Dr. Strangelove * once it is on its way then it can't be recalled * also they plan to put Cobalt near the fusion core, making it a cobalt bomb, just like in Dr. Strangelove ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb ) * Russian wikipedia says that this outrage is supposed to counter US Anti ballistic missiles. (Again Dr. Strangelove - the doomsday device was supposed to counter a massive ballistic missile buildup - for a fraction of the cost). What worries me is that the worlds elites seem to be a bit less rational than what we had during the cold war ... The Russians seem to be a lot more saber rattling than the Soviet leadership. (I may be wrong here; the defense council is said to have considered the nuking of China during the 1969 border conflict http://www.scmp.com/article/714064/nixon-intervention-saved-china-soviet-nuclear-attack http://www.scmp.com/article/714064/nixon-intervention-saved-... )