<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the country has developed new “invincible” nuclear weapons that could avoid US defenses, saying on March 1 during his annual speech to the nation that the world would now have to “listen to us.”</p><p>The speech represented an escalated level of martial rhetoric even by his pugnacious standards,</a> according to the Washington Post.</p><p>Among the weapons Putin talked about are nuclear-powered cruise missiles that could fly around the south pole to avoid US missile defenses that all point north or west. Another video showed the deployment of a combat laser system, and another showed a new type of super-silent submarine that could carry nuclear missiles close to a target without detection.</p><p>One of Putin’s visualizations of a missile system showed it destroying West Palm Beach, Florida</a>, which is the location of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense via Storyful</p><br />
