Putin flexes muscle in big test of Russia's nuclear arsenal
| Reuters
The exercises, held mostly on Friday, featured
prominently in news reports on state television which seemed aimed to
show Russians and the world that Putin is the hands-on chief of a
resurgent power.
Tests involving
command systems and all three components of the nuclear "triad" - land
and sea-launched long-range nuclear missiles and strategic bombers -
were conducted "under the personal leadership of Vladimir Putin", the
Kremlin said.
An RS-12M Topol Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was launched from the Plesetsk site in northern Russia, and a submarine test-launched another ICBM from the Sea of Okhotsk, the Defence Ministry said.
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