Russian media threatens US with 100 megaton nuclear doomsday device after key arms treaty fails

• Russia’s military and state-sponsored media have reacted with a fire and fury of their own to the news that the US will exit the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaties, threatening to deploy a nuclear “doomsday device.”
• The US found Russia in violation of a key arms treaty, so the US scrapped the treaty and announced it would create its own formerly banned weapons.
• Russia responded by saying it would build its own new nukes in retaliation, and its state-controlled media said nuclear war was now more likely.
• Russian media also floated the possibility of sailing an underwater nuclear doomsday device to the US’s coast. Experts say this is perhaps the most dangerous weapon ever built.

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