OffbeatKremlin shrugs off U.S. call to scrap nuclear-capable missile

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US shrugs at Vladimir Putin' s boast of nuclear -powered cruise missile with unlimited range. Russia has long protested the U . S .’ development of a missile defense shield in Europe, which the U . S . argues is intended to guard against North Korea and Iran, but which the Kremlin says can be directed at

US shrugs at Vladimir Putin' s boast of nuclear -powered cruise missile with unlimited range. Kremlin /EPA via Shutterstock. Russian Sarmat strategic missile demonstrated during Russian President Describing another weapon, a hypersonic nuclear missile called "Avangard," Putin said

Deployment of Iskander missiles to Baltic outpost alarms neighbours but Russia says move is part of regular drill.

Antagonism between the Kremlin and the Bush administration over the deployment of missile systems in Europe deepened yesterday after the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, accused President Dmitry Medvedev of "provocative

Putin claims Russia is developing nuclear arms capable of avoiding missile defenses. “Our missile defense has never been about [Russia],” White told reporters. Top U . S . generals have issued warnings for In his two-hour speech in a historic hall just outside the Kremlin walls, Putin claimed that late

Kremlin is concerned about Pentagon-led nuclear review underway in U . S ., Russian leader says. Putin said that Russia also tested a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile , called Sarmat, with a range and number of warheads exceeding its Soviet-era predecessor, known in the West as Satan.

The Kremlin ' s new intercontinental ballistic missile will be ready for field trials this summer, according to the Russian news network Zvezda, which is owned 'So even if you had the warmest relations in the world with Nato you would want to update your missiles . But (President) Putin of course is happy for

When President Trump called on Congress to modernize the nuclear arsenal, he did not mention the rationale: that Russia has accelerated a dangerous Mr. Putin signing a picture of a nuclear bomber last month.CreditAlexei Nikolsky/ Kremlin , via REUTERS. “This is a very mainstream nuclear policy

The Kremlin has been incensed by the Bush administration' s plans to site missile interceptors and radar bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. Moscow believes the plan upsets Europe' s strategic nuclear balance and targets Russia, but the Bush administration insisted it was intended to defend