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Pentagon acknowledges Russia is developing a 'doomsday' nuclear-armed torpedo
Russia is developing a new underwater torpedo with a nuclear warhead described as a “doomsday weapon,” according to a new Defense Department report.
The Pentagon quietly acknowledged that Russia is developing a “Status-6” system for the first time ever on Friday with a 74-page report.
The Nuclear Posture Review described a “new intercontinental, nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered, undersea autonomous torpedo,” which could be deployed from beneath a submarine.
The torpedo could feasibly travel undetected for thousands of miles underwater, before unleashing radioactive fallout on coastal cities in the U.S.
News of the Status-6 system first surfaced in 2015, when a Russian state television broadcast showed Russian President Vladimir Putin looking at a graphic depicting the Status-6 system.
But Pavel Podvig, an arms control expert, told NPR the Status-6 system might not even exist.
