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    Putin's nuclear slideshow reveals Russia's naked ambitions

    The Russian leader’s vaunting of his arsenal was mainly about attention-seeking, but dangerous developments are shaking up nuclear policy
    by Simon Tisdall Mar 02, 2018 2 minutes
    Vladimir Putin said of the United States: ‘Now they need to take account of a new reality and understand that everything I have said today is not a bluff.’ Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

    Vladimir Putin is famous for taking his clothes off in public. But the latest display of naked power by Russia’s president was delivered fully clothed before a well-dressed, adoring audience in a Moscow exhibition centre.

    It was quite a show. In what amounted to a state-of-the-nation address, he hailed a new generation of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles, underwater drones and nuclear-powered cruise missiles.

    Russia’s revamped arsenal would prove “invincible”, Putin declared. US

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