The drill, which Russian authorities claimed affected 40 million people, and particularly the way it was presented on state television, resembled Soviet-era exercises, with scenes of schoolchildren flooding out in evacuations and being taught to hurriedly pull on gas masks. This month Russia held a large-scale civil defense drill across the country, meant to prepare people for disasters, among them nuclear catastrophe.

Which version is aboard our missile frigates right now isn't known.” Check Your Gas Masks 'Incidentally,' Kiselyov told his audience, the ships missiles 'also in a nuclear version. airstrikes against Syrian military targets. The host, Evgeny Kiselyov, described how three Russian missile frigates this week had sailed toward Syria to head off potential U.S. Russia’s main current affairs show, hosted by a man known by critics as the country’s “propagandist-in-chief,” warned American 'impudence' could take on “nuclear dimensions,” then spending 40 minutes taking viewers through a panoply of potential nuclear options Russia possesses if the United States were to intervene too strongly in Syria. State outlets, already solidly anti-American in their coverage, have unleashed themselves further, indulging in bitter denunciations of America duplicity, bombastic promises of merciless defenses and freely bandying the nuclear card.

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