Russia Could ‘Turn the U.S. Into Radioactive Ash,' News Anchor Says

The man hand-picked by Russian President Vladimir Putin to lead the country's state media appeared on a nightly news program on Sunday to say his country could "turn the U.S. into radioactive dust."

In the clip, Dmitry Kiselyov, the recently installed head of Russia Today, stood before a giant mushroom cloud and proclaimed, "Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive dust," or ash, depending on the translation

He made the statement on state-controlled Rossiya 1 television, and was broadcast as the first exit polls out of the Crimean peninsula showed 93% of people there wanted to leave Ukraine and become a part of Russia. (That number later jumped up to 95% as the ballots were counted.) Read more...