The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile known in Russia as "Satan 2" will be the world's heaviest and most powerful nuclear missile when it is complete.
Satan 2 missiles are capable of carrying nuclear warheads with payloads of up to 20,000 kilotons – more than one thousand times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
At maximum payload a direct hit on New York would kill 4.5million people, injure 3.6million, and send radioactive fallout stretching more than 600 miles.
SHOCK: The missile has the power to take out an area the size of Texas
The "Texas Killer" is Russia’s newest nuclear missile design, and when completed will be the heaviest weapon of its kind to ever be deployed.
It can reportedly carry 10 heavy nuclear warheads and is designed to break through U.S. missile defense systems.
Last year, the Defense Ministry’s Zvezda news agency claimed Sarmat was so powerful, that a single missile could evade Washington’s defenses and wipe out the entire state of Texas.
DANGER: This missile has the potential to level several cities in one go
But, the Russian scientists in charge of developing Satan 2 have suffered a setback which means that it won't be ready until later this year according to the Moscow Times.
Fears over all-out nuclear war are now at fever pitch after Kim Jong-un revealed that North Korea is ready to launch its most powerful nuke ever.
Donald Trump has not allayed fears by preparing to set up a missile system on the border with the secretive state.
In January it was also revealed that the US was planning a surprise nuke attack on China and Russia.
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