are much, much more powerful than the atomic bombs the u.s. dropped on japan in world war ii. in hiroshima, unofficial u. s. estimate says that perhaps 2000 people died from the blast, and related sickness over five years. now, some scientists say a single major new drop from the big city, can kill more than half 1 million people instantly. what s more, some nukes are designed for very specific purposes. for example, researchers say a russian government document indicates their long range nuclear torpedo, known as poseidon in control of thousands of miles underwater, and strike harbors, indicating areas applied radioactive that can be unsuitable for military, economic, rather activities for long periods of time. and none of this even addresses the idea of russia shorter range nukes, designed for battles like those with ukraine. treaties to control or limit all of this, date back to 1963 and the latest extension of the
beyond ukraine united before freedom for democracy and perhaps could be more than anything else in the years ahead, wolf. all right guys, thank you very much, standby, i want to bring in cnn s tom foreman. he has a closer look at russia s nuclear arsenal, and what the suspension of this key treaty with the united states, potentially can mean, go ahead tom. hey, wolf, russia in the united states have 90% of the world s nuclear warheads. with russia estimated to hold a moderate numeric advantage, although of course every single nuc. is a serious matter. the new treaty says each country is limited to just over 1500 deployed warheads. ready to be used immediately. for example, researchers estimate russia has 812 on land base ballistic missiles, about 576 on submarine launched ballistic missiles, and possibly 200 at heavy bomber bases. modern thermo nuclear weapons,
turn into something even bigger and more dangerous. ukraine s president says china s involvement could risk a third world war. that fear, do you think, doris, is that fear overblown? what does history tell you about this risk? you know, i think details of the people the who are living before world war ii could not have imagined that one step after another was going to lead to that world war. maybe people thought the same way before world war i. so we can t take away from us the knowledge that some kind of movements between china and russia may lead to a larger war. it is what must keep president at night. we re trying to figure out how far can we go before crossing that line. and i think that is the calibration he s been making all along the line. so i think it is a very sobering moment. even as we feel that straight sense of enthusiasm and excitement about what ukraine s do it, and was on south a have, and a desire that people have for them to win this war, because it is a war fo
surprise trip to ukraine, yesterday. and it comes as the leader at the free world, took on the autocrat trying to destroy ukraine president biden delivering a fiery address in poland today to mark the upcoming one year anniversary of putin s ruthless invasion, and on the other side of ukraine vladimir putin stood defiant as ever in russia while updating parliament on his war, putting his own usual spin on the truth, falsely claiming that ukraine and the west started this conflict. mr. biden singled out the russian leader by name ten times in a speech declaring, and i m quoting now, putin s craving for land and power will fail. when president putin ordered
senior international correspondant has new information about that failed russian missile test, and our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly, is traveling with mr. biden in poland. first to you matthew. what can you tell us about this long-range missile test that russia actually carried out while president biden was in ukraine. well, this clearly intended as a defiant show force on the part of the cremlin, as joe biden, u.s. president walking through the streets, of the ukrainian capital, shoulder to shoulder with president zelenskyy, his ukrainian counterpart. the test firing of this long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, were told i by u.s. officials, that can work. and, so that s one of the reasons why i expect we haven t heard anything about it. i want to point to the failings of their own military infrastructure. i think one of the other important issues, is what we have learned over the last couple days, is a deconfliction