{"id":363,"date":"2018-03-01T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2018-03-01T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T00:22:10","slug":"putin-threatens-us-arms-race-with-new-missiles-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Putin threatens US arms race with new missiles declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President says Russia has new line of nuclear-capable weapons that can breach US defences<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Andrew Roth<\/a>\u00a0in Moscow<\/p>\n

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Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0has announced that Russia has developed and is testing a new line of strategic nuclear-capable weapons that would be able to outmanoeuvre US defences, in a possible signal of a new arms race between Moscow and the west.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a nationally televised address to the country\u2019s political elite weeks before the presidential election, Putin showed video and animations of ICBMs, nuclear-powered cruise missiles, underwater drones and other weapons that he said\u00a0Russia<\/a>\u00a0had developed as a result of the\u00a0US pulling out of the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty<\/a>\u00a0signed with the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou didn\u2019t listen to our country then,\u201d Putin said during the speech on Thursday. \u201cListen to us now.\u201d Some of the weapons were already being tested, he added.<\/p>\n

The existence of several of the weapons systems \u2013 like the RS-28 Sarmat, or Satan 2, nuclear missile \u2013 were well-known and their tests had been previously reported. What was new was Putin\u2019s portrayal of Russia\u2019s modernising arsenal as an adversarial response to US policy since 2001.<\/p>\n

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