It's just a fuel-air bomb that the Ruskies (and us, though to a lesser extent) have had for a few decades. This one is just bigger than the others. Nothing new here.
There's not going to be a Cold War II, Russia is just too damn week. What you will see is it reasserting itself over its old sphere of influence using its energy resources as a whip. It's already a geopolitical ally of China, which is where the real challenge to Western dominance is going to come from.
I get a paycheck every two weeks for writing two or three pages a day on national energy policy as it relates to wholesale competitive power markets. The New York Times it ain't, but then I'm just a year and a half out of school.
as powerful as what type of nuclear bomb, size, and detonation height?
and obviously this is empty russian posturing... that bomb is too big to deploy effectively, much like the worlds largest nuclear bomb they detonated in '61.
poor russia just feels the pressure of every EU country and applicant, joining NATO and the US in its backyard (Afghanistan and Iraq). this and putting a flag at the bottom of the arctic sea floor.
maybe if they didn't kill journalists who were critical of their shitty government i wouldn't sound like such a xenophobe. sheesh.