Russian TV Airs ‘secret’ Nuclear Weapon Status

Its detonation “in the area of the enemy coast” would result in “extensive zones of radioactive contamination” that would ensure that the region would not be used for “military, economic, business or other activity” for a “long time”.

During a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his senior military advisors and officials in the seaside village of Sochi on Tuesday, a cameraman briefly filmed over the shoulder of a military officer, catching a description of a new weapons system known simply as “Status-6”. The footage has been removed from television.

In what the Kremlin claims was an accident, during the broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with senior generals and representatives from the arms industry the secret document detailing “Ocean Multipurpose System: Status-6” was shown for a few seconds by state-owned Channel One Russia and NTV.

“Certain secrets indeed were caught on camera”, Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wednesday, according to Russian news agency Tass.

“In future we are going to certainly take preventative measures so this doesn’t occur again”.

In reaction, Russian Federation will counter NATO’s US-led missile defense program, and develop new strike weapons which will be able to pierce the shield.

Washington, in turn, has argued that the shield was aimed to fend off missile threats from nations such as Iran and North Korea and wouldn’t be capable of dealing with the massive Russian nuclear arsenal. Military experts and commentators traced the nuclear torpedo concept to the 1950s, when it was first offered by Andrei Sakharov, the father of Soviet thermonuclear bomb who later came to defy the Soviet system and won a Nobel Peace Prize.

The notes on the torpedo diagram give it a range of up to 6,200 miles (10,000km), and a dive depth of 3,300 feet (1,000m) – far beyond that of most manned submarines.

Russia’s secret plans for a nuclear torpedo are no longer secret, reports The Guardian. The document identifies the designer of the new system as Russia’s Rubin Design bureau based in St Petersburg that now is tasked for conventional underwater systems as well as strategic submarines.

“It would cause a highly radioactive tsunami”.

Many observers said it looked like a deliberate leak – more saber-rattling from an increasingly aggressive Russian Federation.

Russia’s been pretty cagey lately, what with the whole Ukraine thing, so any development like this is sure to ratchet up the tension even further.