Skyfall: Russia’s Nuclear Cruise Missile and the Madness of Infinite Flight
The missile’s true value lies in its uncertainty.
When Vladimir Putin goes on television to announce a “new weapon never seen before,” it usually means one of two things: he’s bluffing for domestic morale, or Russian engineers just finished building something so unstable it makes Chernobyl look like a solar farm.
This time, it might be both.
