Russia has thrown down a new gauntlet to Barack Obama with an announcement that it will sharply increase production of strategic nuclear missiles. In the latest of a series of combative moves by the Kremlin, a senior government official in Moscow said the Russian military would commission 70 strategic missiles over the next three years, as part of a massive rearmament programme which will also include short-range missiles, 300 tanks, 14 warships and 50 planes. Military experts said the planned new arsenal was presumed to consist of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, representing a fourfold increase in the rate of ICBM deployment -Tom Parfitt & Julian Borger/Guardian UK (the super red 666bolsheviks making ready to turn US - into their next ussr) --
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