Thursday, November 18, 2004
Soviets building new Nukes
Going retro isn't always a good thing, especially when it comes to rebuilding nuclear arsenals!
Was anyone missing the Cold war besides the Neo-Cons?
See when we break treaties it allows others to disregard the rules as well.
We understand it, why can't they?
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Going retro isn't always a good thing, especially when it comes to rebuilding nuclear arsenals!
Was anyone missing the Cold war besides the Neo-Cons?
Russia is developing a new nuclear missile system unlike any weapon held by other countries, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, a move that could serve as a signal to the United States as Washington pushes forward with a missile defense system.
Putin gave no details about the system or why Russia was pursuing it, and it was unclear whether the Kremlin's cash-strapped armed forces could even afford an expensive new weapon.
But in remarks that could also be aimed at a domestic audience, he told a meeting of the top leadership of the armed forces that the system could be deployed soon, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
"We are not only conducting research and successful tests on state-of-the-art nuclear missile systems, but I am convinced that these systems will appear in the near future," Putin said. "Moreover, they will be systems, weapons that not a single other nuclear power has, or will have, in the near future."
"We'll continue our efforts to build our armed forces and its nuclear component," he said.
ITAR-Tass indicated the new system could be a mobile version of the Topol-M ballistic missile, which have been deployed in silos since 1998. But Alexander Pikayev, a senior military analyst with Moscow's Institute for Global Economy and International Relations, said Putin seemed to be referring to the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, a solid fuel missile that had its first test in September.
See when we break treaties it allows others to disregard the rules as well.
We understand it, why can't they?
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