Nuclear disarmamentwhen?
Following the successful test-firing of the new Sineva ballistic missile from a submarine in the Barents Sea last week as announced by the Russian Navy, Russia has successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile with multiple warheads on 25 December from the Plessetsk cosmodrome in Northwest Russia, repeating a test first carried out in May said a statement from the military, cited by Interfax news agency.
The RS 24, a new intercontinental missile, flew 7,000 kilometers (about 4,400 miles) from west to east before hitting its target on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, said the statement. The RS 24 can carry up to three nuclear warheads, Interfax reported. It uses technology from the Topol-M, known by NATO as the SS 27. The RS 24 and the Topol-M are designed to replace the RS 18 missile (the SS 19 Stilleto under NATO classification) and the Soviet-era RS 20 (known by Nato as the SS 18 Satan).
Both the USA and Russia have been at loggerheads on the issue of nuclear shield in Eastern Europe by NATO and both are testing more and more powerful missiles to threaten the world. If this trend continues, where is the hope for a serious nuclear disarmament?
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