Russia could turn U.S. ‘into radioactive dust,’ influential Moscow news anchor tells viewers (Source Yahoo) Just in case you weren’t taking the situation in the Ukraine seriously enough, an influential Russian news anchor reminded viewers that his country could reduce the United States “into radioactive dust.” Russia is “the only country in the world capable of turning the U.S.A. into radioactive dust,” Dmitry K. Kiselyov said in a shocking report Sunday night, complete with a mushroom cloud graphic. Kiselyov also said that U.S. President Barack Obama was very concerned about Russia’s nuclear arsenal, particularly its alleged “dead hand” system, Soviet Union-era technology to allow a nuclear strike even if government leadership is incapacitated. With its brinksmanship, bellicose rhetoric, threats and counter-threats, the crisis over Moscow’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula seems to have whisked the world back to the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union squared off in a high-stakes standoff that divided the world into two opposing camps.