President says Russia has modern line of nuclear-capable weapons that can breach US defencesVladimir Putin has announced that Russia has developed and is testing a modern line of strategic,nuclear-capable weapons that would be able to outmanoeuvre US defences, suggesting a modern arms race between Moscow and the west.
Speaking in a nationally televised address to the country’s political elite weeks before a presidential election, and the president showed video and animations of ICBMs,nuclear-powered cruise missiles, underwater drones and other weapons that he said Russia had developed as a result of the US pulling out of the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty signed with the Soviet Union.
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Source: guardian.co.uk