Vladimir Putin’s security chief issued a chilling warning about Russia’s ‘dead hand’ nuclear capability as he sparred with Donald Trump in an increasingly tense war of words.
Dmitry Medvedev, who serves on the country’s Security Council, said the US president should ‘recall his favorite movies about “the walking dead” and remember how dangerous the so-called ‘dead hand’ … could be.’
Trump ordered the deployment of a pair of US nuclear submarines after the former Russian president made the sinister threat.
‘We had to do that. We just have to be careful,’ Trump said on the White House lawn on Friday. ‘A threat was made and we didn’t think it was appropriate. So I have to be very careful.
‘A threat was made by a former president of Russia, and we’re going to protect our people.’
The ‘dead hand’ is Russia’s rumored world-ending nuclear weapon. It takes its name because it supposedly does not need any command from an actual human, leaving the country with the ability to retaliate even if its leadership and military forces are wiped out, according to Military.com.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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