Vladimir Putin tests new "Poseidon" nuclear torpedo
And how friendly was Putin's recent visit to Alaska?
Trump doesn't want to waste time. His meeting with Putin in Alaska was very hastily arranged and the one in Hungary was just as hastily cancelled.
Trump says he did not want ‘wasted meeting’ after plan for Putin talks shelved
The comments by the US president come after plans to meet his Russian counterpart over the war in Ukraine were put on hold.
Russia tested Poseidon nuclear torpedo capable of destroying cities with radioactive tsunamis: Putin
Reports estimate that the weapon is capable of carrying a 2 megaton warhead — or more than 150 times the power of the bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Patrick Reilly
Wait a second. Was this the test that caused the magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia earthquake on July 29–30, 2025?
Russian Federation: The 2025 Kamchatka earthquake and tsunami
To be fair, that is in the Pacific Ring of Fire of tectonic plate movements where large earthquakes are quite natural, so it is possible that a small nuclear weapon test could have triggered a large earthquake by jiggling loose tectonic plates under great stress.