Close Encounters of the Third Millennium

... and the Russian Navy is expected to have received the weapons by then. According to the media , Poseidon will be able to carry a 2-megaton nuclear warhead. Mathew Maavak: Remote Weapons Come of Age Some conference participants believe that the use of drones with nuclear warheads could radically change the strategic balance of power and provoke a new arms race. Additionally, if an autonomous vehicle is launched by mistake, the marine environment makes it impossible to make contact with it to abort its deadly mission. However, this is not a new problem: for a long time, nuclear submarines were in ...