A New Arms Race With Russia?

The SS-18 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was given the nickname 'Satan'

Russia Launches Arms Race With New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile -- The Telegraph

Russia is developing a replacement for the world's most devastating intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a move that risks reviving a global nuclear arms race.

Work on the new missile, which has yet to be given a name, started in Moscow in 2009 and could be wrapped up as early as 2017, the head of the secretive military industrial corporation helping develop it has revealed.

In comments to Russian news agency ITAR-TASS that went largely unnoticed, the head of Rosobshemash said the new missile would be capable of overcoming any nuclear missile shield that the Americans or indeed anyone else might build.

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My Comment: The U.S. is going down a different path.

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