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The Russians built the largest nucleur weapon of all time just a year or two ago. Its hardly an escalation when other countries are doing the same thing.

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This is misleading: the size of a specific weapon is not the whole story if you don't look at the map to compare where the weapons are

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_NATO_chronolo...

http://iran-si.org/images/docs/000001/001067/images/NATOExpa...

Then Google for US and NATO military bases.

I would like to read further on this. Could you link me to a source?

If your thinking about the "Tsar Bomba" that wasn't really a weapon and it was exploded in 1961:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

[NB And making really big H-bombs isn't that difficult or indeed very useful other than for bragging rights - which was the point of this device].

I think he was talking about this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat

I think it's more likely to be this: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2015/11/18/r...

Interestingly, it appears to be propaganda only intended for internal consumption in former USSR.

That's minor PR event which likely purpose is to send some message to the West, while also delivering some "good news" to the audience of state TV. If you'll ask anyone in Russia, noone will remember it. Meanwhile, RS-28 is real and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces do perform the upgrade of the whole triade at this moment.

I agree- weapons that actually exist are of far greater significance to this discussion. I just thought this was a better fit to the GP's original comment than the other suggestions posted.

Cite?

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