When armed with a nuclear warhead, Poseidon can reportedly generate radioactive swells—or toxic ocean waves—which would be devastating for anyone living along the shoreline. Regardless of how destructive the initial swell is, the fallout would be especially devastating to all living creatures living along the coast. When nuclear weapons are detonated near or beneath ground level, the explosion sucks up and contaminates particles like dirt and water, Stephen Schwartz, the author of Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940, tells Business Insider. For example, after WWII, the United States tested 24 nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll, off the coast of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Burevestnik is unlike any other nuclear missile because it can fly extremely long and far.