Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he got nuclear weapons that are invincible mr. Putin made the threat at his annual State of the Union speech today this comes after the u. s.
withdrew from a cold air treaty cold war-era treaty and ahead of Russian elections and in a video presentation Putin claimed that one missile is low-flying and difficult to spot he says it has ultimately has an unlimited range and unpredictable flight path well he also showed off a long-range submarine missile it's capable of delivering a nuclear warhead for more we turn now to CBS News national security correspondent David Martin he's at the Pentagon David how are US officials responding to this and that as he's saying it invincible weapons well the Pentagon spokeswoman said just a short time ago that the u. s. was not surprised by the development of these new weapons and had already taken them into account in assessing the the threat posed by Russia and the fact is that the US has never had a defense against Russian ballistic missiles so the fact that Russia is adding another type of missile or cruise missile to its nuclear arsenal still doesn't change the fact that the u.
s. is defenseless against Russian missiles the US could always retaliate against a Russian strike in a way that would wipe out Russia and that's the so-called balance of terror which has existed ever since the first cold war between the u. s.
