Putin confirms development of new nuclear warheads
OCT 19, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021593
Various : Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on state-run television yesterday that Russia is developing a new generation of nuclear weapons in order to combat the US missile defense shield. According to the Guardian and an analyst at a Russian forces blog , the new design is likely to be based on a solid propellant ICBM whose warhead detaches in space into multiple warheads that can maneuver on a final approach to a target to avoid interceptors.
There is also a complete absence of discussion in Russia at the moment of the idea of nuclear disarmament writes Pavel Podvig in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists , “Even President Vladimir Putin’s opponents are more likely to criticize him for not doing enough to enhance strategic forces rather than question the growing reliance on nuclear weapons,” he says.
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