Medvedev: Test of much-heralded new missile done

Sacramento Bee ^

[deek69]

MOSCOW -- A ballistic missile that is to be a cornerstone of Russia's nuclear arsenal has completed its rocky test program and will be commissioned by the military, President Dmitry Medvedev announced Tuesday during a meeting with military officers.

The Bulava ICBM, intended to arm a new generation of nuclear submarines, is a three-stage missile that can carry up to 10 individually targeted warheads at a range of 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles).

[Dogbert41]

Thank God we quit wasting our money on some ineffective anti-missile program! All we needed to do was force some dumb-ass nuclear treaty through a lame duck Senate and “viola” peace in our time!

[G Larry]

It is impossible to segregate your sarcasm from your ignorance.

[patriotfury]

The treaties were for the most part a joke. Under START I and II, the truth is that Moscow simply redesignated the majority of their stockpile of “cold war era” nuclear warheads to be under their energy ministry, therebye almost completely getting around any language in any treaty. The new Bolava platform is very impressive.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

A couple things. Bush, that wasn’t Putin’s eyes you were looking into. Much lower on the body.

Russia is our enemy and we still try to help them achieve democracy. A colleague of mine went to Russia in the 1990’s to help them rewrite their constitution. Nice intentions, irrelevant results.

SALT, START, etc. Nothing but treaty traps by the reds and we fell for them. Obama would sell out America to Nicaragua is he could, and he will try to.

We are on our own and if we don’t get a military brass with some bigger balls, we are toast, as in nuclear toast or nuclear blackmail.