Putin’s new nuclear-powered cruise missile, one of his so-called ‘super weapons,’ is unnecessary but not totally useless, nuclear weapons expert says
A Russian Topol-M ICBM drives across Red Square in a Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9, 2008. An expert told Insider, weapons like these get the job done, making the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile unnecessary.YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images Putin announced a successful test of an experimental nuclear-powered cruise missile earlier this month. …