This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Batchel. David Livingston, my colleague and co-host of Hotel Mars, episode N.

We welcome Dr. A.J. Kotari of the Asterox Corporation to help us interpret and news release out of Moscow in these last days.

Russia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered Buravestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-capable

weapon Moscow says can pierce any defense shield, and Moscow will move towards deploying

the weapon, according to Vladimir Putin, on Sunday,

wearing in this Reuters picture a military uniform.

AJ, a very good evening to you.

My understanding is the nuclear part of this press release is that it's a nuclear-powered cruise missile for violence.

But nuclear power can be applied to space travel as well.

Is this a well-known technology? Good evening to you, E.J.

Good evening. Good evening. Good evening, David. Thank you for inviting me.

Well, this Bury Vesnik is, it's a huge thing, actually.

It's a huge news because the news was that, and New York Times and Reuters and everybody covered it,

that it flew 14,000 kilometers for 15 hours continuously, which has never been done with the chemical propulsion

before. So that is really incredible. And it is obviously a subsonic, you know, subsonic

missile.

But the thing is that what it does, the way it does is that it

captures the air from the front

and then using a compressor,

it compresses the air and then it flows over

a nuclear reactor. It heats it, heats the air enough

that when it comes out in the back, it propels a turbine, which is the one that is connected

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