https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sAhFmRIJ7U In his annual state of the nation address on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile that he claimed could fly indefinitely and deliver a warhead to any point on the earth's surface. The weapon seems so fantastical that some analysts simply didn't believe the initial reports of the missile that appeared on social media early Thursday. "I had my doubts," says Pavel Podvig, who runs the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces blog . Podvig thought that perhaps something was lost in translation. But after watching the speech for himself on YouTube , he realized Putin had really made the claim: "Apparently, that's what he said." According to Putin's prepared remarks to the Russian Federal Assembly, he said that "in late 2017, Russia successfully launched its latest nuclear-powered missile at the Central training ground. During its flight, the nuclear-powered engine reached its design capacity
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