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New nuclear missile test by Russia

Russia tests nuclear missile amid row with US | Herald Sun * May 21, 2011  RUSSIA has conducted its second intercontinental ballistic missile test in less than a month as it stepped up its campaign against a US-backed interceptor system for Europe.News reports said the Sineva missile was launched from a Russian submarine in the Barents Sea and later successfully hit its target on the opposite side of the country on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
“The launch was conducted from a submerged position,” defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told Russian news agencies…..
Moscow is currently furious with Washington for pushing ahead with plans to deploy a missile defence system for Europe – a shield that Russia fears could one day be transformed into an offensive weapon that targets its soil……Russia tests nuclear missile amid row with US | Herald Sun

May 21, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, weapons and war