Russia’s underwater “doomsday drone”: Science fiction, but real danger
ABSTRACT
A
November 2015 video broadcast of a high-level meeting of Russian
military and defense industry officials gave viewers a peek at Russia’s
ostensive plans for Status-6, an underwater nuclear drone to be armed
with a high-yield thermonuclear warhead capable of radioactively
contaminating vast coastal areas. The author’s analysis is that the
video was staged to send an intimidating message to the West, and that
the drone itself does not fit the Russian pattern of maintaining
absolute, centralized control over nuclear weapons delivery.
Nevertheless, the author considers the leaked video to be cause for
concern, because it demonstrates a growing Russian willingness to make
nuclear threats as a means to achieving political ends.
http://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2016.1194617
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