#arms-control

#arms-control

US and Russian officials have both described Poseidon as a new category of retaliatory weapon, with a nuclear warhead capable of triggering a radioactive tsunami to render coastal cities uninhabitable. Arms control experts say the weapon breaks most of the traditional nuclear deterrence and classification rules. It is launched from a submarine like a torpedo, but is claimed to be able to loiter as an underwater drone before attacking with its nuclear warhead.

Hezbollah has branded the Lebanese government's push to have a state monopoly on arms as a grave sin and is dismissing it out of hand as if it doesn't exist.