Russia could turn the UK to wasteland in minutes as Moscow masters superweapons

The chilling truth for the West is this - if Vladimir Putin presses a button, cities from London to New York could be horrifically turned to wasteland in minutes. Deep inside Russia 's military machine, the tyrant is quietly assembling an arsenal designed not to win a war in Europe, but to decimate whole nations at the push of a button. His scientists are racing ahead with terrifying exotic nuclear systems that sound closer to doomsday fiction than modern military reality. They are building a suite of systems designed to frighten the world into caution - but these are not just bombs and missiles. They are nuclear-powered underwater drones, reactor-driven cruise missiles, hypersonic attack vehicles and even suspected space-based capabilities that American officials warn could, in the most extreme scenario, blind satellites and plunge modern societies into darkness in seconds.