“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw
Oct 27, 2025
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LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .
I have decided, after a week of consideration, that daily subjective reviews and comments related to the more important daily events is better than looking back at previous often already immaterial issues in this fast-spinning global nuclear world. So the new format will remain basically as before along with with minor changes to the posting of feature stories from one of the categories in Today’s Nuclear World News t.
About today’s story . . .
Trump says the new missile Russia has developed is “inappropriate” in the NBC Article below! What the hell does that mean in this world of nuclear threats, nuclear bombs, and nuclear missiles? I don’t expect Putin to stop laughing. Does Trump actually think such “hard words” as “inappropriate” will cause Putin to “mothball” the new nuclear missile? Whether it is a threat or not I would not underestimate it. . . ~llaw
Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
Trump calls Russia’s missile test ‘inappropriate’ — but is Putin’s nuclear-powered weapon actually a threat?
“The main reason that no one else has tried to build something like this is that it doesn’t really have any use,” one expert told NBC News.
President Vladimir Putin at Russia’s army command center, in a video released Sunday.Kremlin.ru / via Reuters
Oct. 27, 2025, 7:01 AM PDT
Russia says it has successfully tested an experimental weapon that sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: a nuclear-powered cruise missile with unlimited range, whose low-flying, terrain-hugging and loitering capabilities could evade American missile defenses and drop atomic bombs anywhere on Earth.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the Burevestnik — meaning “storm petrel” (a type of sea bird) — was “indeed a unique weapon that no other country possesses.”
The development has drawn concern internationally, with President Donald Trump saying Monday it was “inappropriate” to be conducting such tests when Russia should be focusing on peace talks with Ukraine.
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But many Western experts have questioned the value of the missile, which is code-named “Skyfall” by NATO. Some say it doesn’t do anything Russia can’t do already — while others ridicule it as a waste of money. There are also safety concerns that the mini-reactor that powers the missile could spark a radiation catastrophe.
“The main reason that no one else has tried to build something like this is that it doesn’t really have any use,” Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, told NBC News.
The weapon is instead “largely political,” according to Podvig, who is based in Geneva and runs the Russian Nuclear Forces Project. “It was important for the Kremlin, I think, that this is unique and something no one else has done before.”
“We test missiles all the time,” he said. “They’re not playing games with us, and we’re not playing games with them either.”
The Kremlin said it saw no reason why the test would “strain relations between Moscow and Washington,” already complicated by the shelved Putin-Trump summit.
The test was announced Sunday by Putin and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s chief of the general staff, who appeared together in a video wearing camouflage fatigues.
Gerasimov told the president the missile had flown for 15 hours and covered 8,700 miles during a test last Tuesday — a record but not the limit of its range, he said.
Gerasimov spoke of its “assured accuracy against highly protected targets at any range” and said it had “a high capability to evade missile-defense and air-defense systems.”
It uses a reactor — essentially a “miniature nuclear power plant” — to heat air to temperatures of almost 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which powers a ramjet engine that could keep it flying for days, according to a 2019 report by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an American nonprofit group.
The U.S. and Soviet Union both looked into developing the technology during the Cold War but abandoned it because of the concerns highlighted by experts today.
Those fears were realized in 2019. An offshore explosion in the Russian Arctic killed five scientists and spiked radiation in a nearby city. Experts and later the U.S. government said it was likely a failed Burevestnik test.
TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS, Monday, (10/27/2025)
About Today’s Nuclear News and How it Works:
There are 7 categories, including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcano and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in the survival of human and other life.
The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). If there was no news from a Category today, the Category will not appear. The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
- All Things Nuclear
- Nuclear Power
- Nuclear Power Emergencies
- Nuclear War Threats
- Nuclear War
- Yellowstone Caldera
- IAEA News (Friday’s only)
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
Today’s Nuclear World News . . .
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Russia Downs Drones En Route To Moscow | US: China TO Delay Rare Earths Rules By A Year
YouTube
All About Burevestnik: Russia’s Nuclear Cruise Missile To Leave Trump’s Tomahawks In The Dust? … History of Simple Things New 397K views · 6:55 · Go …
How the shutdown threatens to halt Trump’s aggressive nuclear security goals – CNN
CNN
“You have to make sure everything is put away properly.” Bringing them back online likewise takes time. This means that even a potentially short delay …
CSIS Satellite Imagery Analysis Reveals Possible Signs of Renewed Nuclear Activity in Iran
CSIS
This declaration formally ends all international oversight of Iran’s nuclear … Three Things Will Determine Iran’s Nuclear Future—Fordow Is Just One of …
Nuclear Power
NEWS
Russia has tested a new nuclear-capable missile, Putin and top general say – ABC News
ABC News – The Walt Disney Company
MOSCOW — Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching closer to deploying it to its …
Russia’s new ‘invincible’ nuclear missile is ready to be deployed, Putin claims
New York Post
3. Little is known about the Burevestnik nuclear–powered missile, which NATO has code-named Skyfall. Russian …
Putin says Russia has tested a new long-range, nuclear-capable missile that can evade defenses
PBS
Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching closer to deploying it to its military, …s En Route To Moscow | US: China TO Delay Rare Earths Rules By A Year
YouTube
All About Burevestnik: Russia’s Nuclear Cruise Missile To Leave Trump’s Tomahawks In The Dust? … History of Simple Things New 397K views · 6:55 · Go …
How the shutdown threatens to halt Trump’s aggressive nuclear security goals – CNN
CNN
“You have to make sure everything is put away properly.” Bringing them back online likewise takes time. This means that even a potentially short delay …
CSIS Satellite Imagery Analysis Reveals Possible Signs of Renewed Nuclear Activity in Iran
CSIS
This declaration formally ends all international oversight of Iran’s nuclear … Three Things Will Determine Iran’s Nuclear Future—Fordow Is Just One of …
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
Trump Rebukes Putin For Russia Nuclear-Powered Missile Test – Time Magazine
Time Magazine
Trump and Medvedev’s War of Words Escalates to Nuclear Threats Amid Ukraine Conflict · China, North Korea, and Russia’s Response to Trump’s ‘Golden …
The threat of nuclear Armageddon – Foreign and security policy | IPS Journal
IPS Journal
… War: the threat of nuclear Armageddon. In Kathryn Bigelow’s film … In their place, we are witnessing the return of open threats of nuclear war …
Trump describes Russia’s new cruise missile test as ‘not appropriate’ – The Guardian
The Guardian
US president says Vladimir Putin should focus on ending war with Ukraine rather than testing missiles. … threats. Soon after, Russia deployed its new …
Nuclear War
NEWS
Russia’s Burevestnik missile: Trump calls Putin test ‘inappropriate’ – NBC News
NBC News
The missile is a so-called second strike weapon, designed to be part of Russia’s response to a nuclear attack. … Exclusive look at NATO’s nuclear war …
Putin says Russia has tested a new long-range, nuclear-capable missile that can evade defenses
PBS
The U.S. and the Soviet Union worked on nuclear-powered missiles during the Cold War, but they eventually shelved the projects, considering them too …
Russia successfully tests nuclear-powered Skyfall missiles – YouTube
YouTube
Russia successfully tests nuclear-powered Skyfall missiles. 1.3K … Putin’s war is on a ‘knife edge’ and will be easily diffused | Former …
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
Not only global warming — Next threat to mankind could start underground and America will …
El Diario 24
The Yellowstone Caldera is a complex supervolcano field that spans across Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. The field consists of multiple lava domes, …