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Russia Does Not Rule Out Preemptive Missile Defense Strike

IN THIS ISSUE: Russia does not rule out preemptive missile defense strike, Iran seeks end to sanctions at talks, Australia commits NSG support for India, nuclear waste 'may be blighting 1,000 UK sites,' UN adds three DPRK companies on sanctions list, US pushes missile defense in Mideast.

Published on May 3, 2012
 

Russia Does Not Rule Out Preemptive Missile Defense Strike

RIA Novosti

Nikolai Makarov

Russia does not exclude preemptive use of weapons against [NATO] missile defense systems in Europe but only as a last resort, the Russian General Staff said on Thursday at a missile defense conference in Moscow.

"The placement of new strike weapons in the south and northwest of Russia against [NATO] missile defense components, including the deployment of Iskander missile systems in Kaliningrad region is one possible way of incapacitating the European missile defense infrastructure," Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said.  Full Article

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US and Russian Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons (Hans M. Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists)



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