Isaiah 17:1.

Putin, Dude - what are you thinking? Is your national pride really worth opening up that Pandora's box?
There is no hope at the bottom once you've opened it, and if you keep beating your bare chest talking about nukes, don't be surprised to find one go off in Red Square because there's a lot of little groups of crazies out there who are just itching to burn the world down because they're too afraid about how big it is and that they can't be in charge.

I don't need any more f'n duck n' cover drills. They aren't any good, anyway.

Haele

The article itself is more revealing than the headline. Remember Russia lost 220 Passengers in a Terrorist attack on an Egyptian Plane coming back from a Resort and had a Fighter Jet taken down, with a Pilot killed, by Turkey Fighter Jets which is under still questionable circumstances investigation. So, he's doing what any country would do to protect their position to warn off further attacks.

and don't even think of sending your "radicalized" Chechen goons back to bother Mother Russia.

I don't think this message is even for Turkey; I think it's for the House of Saud, Qatar and the Emirates. And their buddy/puppetmaster, the USA.

The only thing that humanity collectively needs is for all nuclear weapons to be destroyed.

We need to get over the idea that they can be used.

He said: "With regard to strikes from a submarine. We certainly need to analyze everything that is happening on the battlefield, how the weapons work. Both the [Kalibr] missiles and the Kh-101 rockets are generally showing very good results. We now see that these are new, modern and highly effective high-precision weapons that can be equipped either with conventional or special nuclear warheads."

"Naturally, we do not need that in fighting terrorists, and I hope we will never need it. But overall, this speaks to our significant progress in terms of improving weaponry and equipment being supplied to the Russian army and navy."

It could be a warning to NATO hawks or it could be about weapons sales. Or for internal consumption (their weapons can protect them). The fact that it was an open meeting means it is meant to advertise a capability.

and its been going on since newsprint existed--that to get a person to read...Go for the Juicy "Capture the Reader" Headline.

On DU most people feel its important to post Original Headline with the link so they don't get hit as a "Troll" posting from an "unapproved site." It often causes confusion, though. So...we all who post articles here, often get caught up with people misinterpreting the Content of an article, because of the misleading Headline that is not the fault of the poster.

It's happened to most of us at one time or the other, here.

....I don't put much stock into this. This was a message to other nations in the region...that being, yeah, your terrorists you support are nuts....but we still have the majority shares in the stock of being nuts and have no problem of getting into the business of glass blowing. This was directed at the house of Saud.

WWIII in the Middle East. It's ramping up and should please all the fanatics on both sides. Sickening. We need Bernie not Hillary the Hawk with something to prove.

They want ISIS gone, not Damascus uninhabitable for their entire lives..

while I don't think very highly of putin, I don't think he's so stupid to actually use a nuke. Threaten; yes. actually use one; no.