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00:00Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Sunday that the Kremlin had successfully tested a new

00:04invincible nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile, with an alleged unlimited range.

00:10Putin touted the test of the supposed doomsday weapon, known in Russia as the Burevestnik missile,

00:16claiming it was invincible and capable of bypassing all current and future missile defense systems.

00:23In a video released by the Kremlin, Putin, dressed in military fatigues,

00:27instructed his country's top generals to start preparing the missile for potential use.

00:57According to Putin's chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces, Valery Gerasimov,

01:02the latest test of the missile flew in the air for 15 hours and covered a distance of about 8,700 miles,

01:09easily capable of reaching New York City or Washington, D.C.

01:13Little is actually known about the missile, which some have dubbed Flying Chernobyl.

01:17According to a 2019 report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative,

01:21the subsonic cruise missile is designed to be powered internally by a miniature nuclear power plant,

01:27enabling it to fly farther and for longer at a speed less than the speed of sound.

01:32The Burevestnik, which in English translates to announcer of the storm,

01:36could conceptually stay in the air between 24 and 48 hours.

01:40If it were to be tactically launched, the missile would carry a nuclear warhead

01:43and circle the Earth at a low altitude to avoid missile defense systems.

01:48According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies,

01:51a Russian military journal suggested the missile could fly as far as 12,000 miles

01:56and would hover at an altitude between 160 and 300 feet throughout its flight to evade air defenses.

02:03But despite Moscow's boasts, experts have said it remains unclear if the missile boasts

02:08all of the advances that Putin claims.

02:10The Burevestnik has had a poor test record in recent years,

02:14with two partial successes documented among the 13 known tests,

02:18according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative Advocacy Group.

02:21The missile also reportedly killed five nuclear engineers and two service members,

02:26following an explosion in 2019 during tests at a Navy White Sea base.

02:32Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia Non-Proliferation Project

02:36at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies

02:39and host of the Arms Control Wonk podcast,

02:42said the Burevestnik was not all it's cracked up to be.

02:45The system is intended to defeat a missile defense.

02:47And so the idea is because it can fly for basically an unlimited range,

02:51and then it can fly around defenses.

02:53On the other hand, you could build more defenses,

02:56or you could use aircraft to go intercept them.

02:59So I don't think the system is invincible,

03:02but it's part of the deepening arms race that we're in,

03:06where they've come up with a new system,

03:08and now we have to come up with something to shoot it down.

03:10The Burevestnik's most recent test came after Putin directed a set of nuclear drills

03:15earlier in the week that featured practice launches of the Kremlin's nuclear-capable missile fleet,

03:21the largest in the world.

03:22In August, researchers had warned that Russia was planning a new missile test

03:26after satellite images revealed activity at Russia's Pankovo test site on the Berenc Sea archipelago,

03:33including increases in personnel and equipment and ships and aircraft associated with earlier tests.

03:39Putin's special envoy said the Trump administration had been made aware of the successful missile test.

03:44While flying on Air Force One to Japan,

03:46President Trump issued a chilling warning to Putin in response to the missile test,

03:51while repeatedly demanding the Russian tyrant end the war in Ukraine.

03:56They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores,

04:00so I mean, it doesn't have to go 8,000 miles,

04:03and they're not playing games with us.

04:05We're not playing games with them either.

04:07Putin has previously declared that the Kremlin is free to use doomsday weapons against any nation,

04:13propped up by a nuclear power,

04:14a clear threat against NATO and the U.S. over their support of Ukraine.

04:19Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has upped his calls for the U.S.

04:23to supply his country with long-range missiles to force Putin to make peace.

04:29The Ukrainian president praised Trump's latest sanctions on Russia,

04:32saying they will make a difference,

04:34but warned that more pressure was needed to bring an end to the conflict,

04:38which has been raging since February 2022.

04:40In May, Trump announced a $175 billion Golden Dome missile defense system

04:47to shoot down short-range missiles aimed at the United States.

04:51Pentagon officials are aiming to test President Trump's space-based missile defense system

04:56in the fourth quarter of 2028.

04:59That time frame lines up with Trump's ambitious goal to have it done in three years.

05:03The U.S.

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