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Troubling? Putin Oversees Largest Russian Nuclear Tests Since the Cold War

Oct. 20, 2012 6:23pm Erica Ritz

Russians Launch Largest Nuclear Tests Since the Cold War | Vladimir Putin

(Photo: AP)

Amid international calls for nuclear disarmament, Russia has launched the most comprehensive tests on its nuclear arsenal since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Kremlin said Saturday.

Reuters relates:

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.

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“Exercises of the strategic nuclear forces were conducted on such a scale for the first time in the modern history of Russia,” the Kremlin statement [added].

“Vladimir Putin gave a high evaluation to the combat units and crews and the work of the Armed Forces General Staff, which fulfilled the tasks before them and affirmed the reliability and effectiveness of Russia’s nuclear forces.” [Emphasis added]

In 2010, the United States and Russia agreed to scale back their nuclear arsenals to no more than 1,550 warheads by 2018. However, while Putin appears to be fine-tuning his arsenal, President Obama has made his commitment to total nuclear disarmament perfectly clear.

“I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” he said to a Nobel Peace Prize panel shortly after he was elected. “This goal will not be reached quickly – perhaps not in my lifetime. It will take patience and persistence.”

Republicans have harshly criticized the president’s ambitions, however, saying it is highly unlikely our enemies will follow our lead. On the contrary, they will likely just grow bolder as the balance swings in their favor.

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Individualism
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:24pm
Russia has the right to defend themselves like any other nation. so i guess murdering muslims isn’t good enough for neo cons now they target slavs.

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:30pm
  A “Naive-O-Con” writing about “Neo-Cons”…. you’re a winner INDI, but I mean that in a loser sense…
  
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- BetterInformed
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:34pm
  You’re obviously young and don’t have a family. I can see why you’re home alone on a Saturday night typing hate on a computer.
  Sad little person. Get a puppy. Better yet don’t . I’d feel bad for the puppy.
  
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- pondfrog
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:55pm
  We also have the right the defend ourselves. But O is disarming us. He wants to go down to 300 nukes by the end of his 2nd term (if he wins). This election is so much more than just economics. He is setting us up just like Philly suggests.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:56pm
  Windy needs to get his message front and center. The pauljohnsonbarr bots need to be reminded of why they got zip in respect. Smoke up windy.
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:56pm
  Indi is an anarchist, not a true libertarian…there is a difference in us believe it or not. He would Pl$$ on the constitution given the chance. He loves it now because it is as close to total freedom of government that you can get….I disagree with his posts 90% of the time and think he is one of those that makes us look bad. I bet he has a “Sex, Drugs, and Ron Paul” T-shirt that he likes to wear around….which is fine, he has the freedom to do so, but i wish he would understand that it doesn’t help the cause…..
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 11:02pm
  let me rephrase that….I disagree with the tone of his posts about 99% of the time…..the content about 60%…lol
  
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- DavidintheD
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 11:15pm
  Sure,I just hope that they GET YOU and YOURS FIRST when this idiot Prez emasculates our armed forces.
  
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1TrueOne55
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:20pm
With the many verbal dances that Obama does can we be so sure that he was talking about himself at the Korean Conference, does he mean Obama or Putin??? And did Putin just go at this test sooner than he needed to to affect the elections in the US????

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Ducky657
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:15pm
Well he does have his bestest buddy Barack who has his back! Probably one in ten Americans remember his conversation with Medvedev during an open mike during the G8 meetings. If you are on the fence Google Obama’s hot mike comments to Medvedev and get off the fence.

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capitalismrocks
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:11pm
Get Romney into office ASAP!!! We need to upgrade our nuclear arsenal, put the Peacekeeper missile systems back into active alert status and beef up our DSP, BMEWS and other early warning systems asap!!!

No more apologies! We’re America and we are in your face… now crawl back into the evil little holes you came out of or we will will drop 10 megatons of RAID on your insect-like rear-ends!

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- ScienceIsNotEvil
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:54pm
  The DOE maintains our nuclear stockpile – aren’t you a TEA party member who is for the total elimination of the DOE since everything it does is wasteful / to save money?
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 9:10pm
  @ScienceIsNotEvil,
  
  You’re getting the Department of Education (DoE) confused with the Department of Energy (DoE).
  
  Look into it. It’s Dept of Energy head Mr. Chu that needs to go along with any other commies.
  
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- db321
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:52am
  Don’t be so hard on “He who thinks he is wise becomes a fool” ScienceIsNotEvil. He gets his News from Chris Mathews, SNL and Steven Colbert.
  
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comsense08
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:11pm
dude, period key please! right next to that comma!

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Shasta
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:08pm
The world is reacting to the weakest president in this country’s history.

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- barber2
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:16pm
  Exactly. Like bad kids act when the adults leave.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:29pm
  Thanks to Obama the internet has never been safer also the deluge of port probing going on is astounding maybe it’s a ploy to revert back to bank tellers who will unionize. Quite frankly I am considering dumping internet access because of the lack of security.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:36pm
  @shasta:
  
  More than that, GretaWire has an article on its blog stating there will be UN observers out during the November elections to ensure everything is fair and impartial.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:11pm
  Obama could make a Paulbot proud
  
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momrules
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:55pm
Now Egypt wants in on nuclear weaponry turning to Iran for help. Saudi Arabia wants nuclear weapons too and have signed nuclear technology agreements with China, France, Argentina and S. Korea.

While everyone else gears up America under Obama’s watch is gearing down.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/19/new_poll_egyptians_turning_toward_iran_want_nuclear_weapons

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:10pm
  CLINTON AND OBAMA HAVE DISARMED AMERICA.
  
  Bush attempted to rebuild nuclear weapons Clinton dismantled but Democrats in the Senate refused to fund the modernization. Bush wanted to test some of our weapons from our stock pile to see if they still work and Democrats vetoed his request. For all practical purposes, the USA is now a non-nuclear state.
  
  The Clinton and Obama administrations have shut down and dismantled the National Labs that did nuclear weapons research and weapons manufacturing. Even if America wanted to rebuild its nuclear weapons, we cannot do it now.
  
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justangry
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:38pm
Yes it’s troubling. Think the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities has the potential of radioactive fallout reaching Russia and ******* them off?

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- Fubared
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:58pm
  Just angry to just skeered in a nanosecond.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:19pm
  Now why would an “isolationist” give a rats @ss what reaches Russia (fallout or the Plague)… especially if Israel nukes Iran..?? Who cares…?? Isn’t that what you want… Israel to take care of business…not us…??
  
  Why is an isolationist “Naive-O-Con” like you even worried about what does or doesn’t piss of Russia?? Who cares right..??
  
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- PaulreveresDarknight
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:18pm
  Go fubar!
  
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neverending
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:33pm
Wonder when the little barry boy made this agreement with his buddy putin? Would not surprise me one bit if they are working hand in hand because nothing surprises me anymore.

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- barber2
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:27pm
  Agree. The International Left is a big tent. Right now it even includes the Palestinian haters of Israel. A big mess of discordant goals which right now coalesce around hating / destroying Israel and American capitalism. These idiots will ultimately eat one another . Will be as messy as the French and Russian Revolutions. When the only glue that holds you together is HATE, the end is not a peaceful one.
  
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patrickspoint
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:25pm
Putinpoo arms, Obama disarms. The KGB used the peaceniks to try and disarm NATO and the West during the Cold War, all Putinpoo has to do is use Obama. Romney/Ryan 2012, or else it’s lights out for the USA.

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Al J Zira
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:20pm
At least they have a picture of him with a shirt on!

What do you expect from a guy that’s been president 3 times, secretary of state twice and in power for the last 20 years? But it’s a democratic state now. Right. And on top of it our wonderful MSM portrays this guy as a reformer whose policies have turned Russia’s economy around and made the whole country happy by eliminating poverty, increasing exports, building a military and increasing GDP.

Of course it’s easy to do all of that when the country was starting at zero when things collapsed in the early 90′s, anything you do to improve the situation will make you smell like a rose. Problem is this guy is a former KGB agent who loves communism and is trying to take the country back to communist rule. So go ahead Russia, have at it. Don’t expect us to bail you out again.

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Fubared
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:16pm
This is where a collective yawn is heard from the bot camp, and lil windy asks angry to pass the bong.

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NDPINDNT
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:15pm
This is an attempt by Putin to support Romney in getting him elected. And guess what? It just might work.

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- OlefromMN
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:03pm
  Isn’t that the truth.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:20pm
  It should help Romney except that the Obama Lefties actually share that Lefty / hate traditional American values thing with old KGB Putin ! The Obama Lefties only hate American conservatives .
  
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- Advection
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:00am
  The people have to HEAR about this first, and the MSM are covering for Obama-Putin.
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:12pm
Well that’s just great. Did Medvedved (or how ever he spells his name) tell Putin that Obama will be more flexable after his re-election and Putin is just readying his ability? Hmmmm

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- neverending
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:34pm
  My guess would be YES.
  
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napoleon_solo
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:10pm
Hey Barry, way to use that flexibility buddy.

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- comsense08
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:14pm
  Yea he needs it to bend over and take it where the sun don’t shine. What an idiot. Obama single handedly has restored the cold war and ticked off every muslim nation possible. Only left to screw up is Korea, but then he still has a couple weeks left.
  
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barber2
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:08pm
And don’t forget my fellow Americans that Putin endorsed Obama who was also endorsed by Chavez and the Castro family ! Now there’s a political reminder ad I like to see. Foreign policy discussion anyone ??

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:19pm
  Never trust a guy who has eyes that are that close to each other. Beady eyed bastige…
  
  Jus’ sayin’.. lol.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:26pm
  And Obama is going to talk with Iran and make a “deal” … we are so screwed …
  
  R & R 2012! PRAY AND VOTE!
  
  yes his eyes are very very close together .. I agree .. he’s a creepy creep
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:03pm
Putin likes sports and horse riding……

Ever wonder what Putin dreams of doing? Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0

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ChrisFirestorm
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:55pm
Right, two important points here:

Firstly, in light of the blatant, virulently anti-Western threat from the now totally Islamist Middle East, it is clear that ALL non-Muslim nations should unite!

Secondly, in regards to Obama’s dopey goal of ‘scaling back’ our nuclear arsenals, I say: “Oh, that is just divine! Leave us even weaker in the face of a Caliphate why don’t you”.

Russia needs to give its bulbous red head a shake. And Obama is just an old, crusty Marxist/Leftist.

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- ScienceIsNotEvil
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:59pm
  The TEA party, via their calls for totally defunding the DOE, is calling for the total elimination of our nuclear stockpile. This is due to the minor detail of the DOE owning all the nuclear weapons, doing all the design and testing.
  
  So the TEA party wishes to totally disarm the US given the result of their previous statements.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 9:14pm
  ScienceIsNotEvil
  
  You’re getting the Department of Education (DoE) confused with the Department of Energy (DoE).
  
  Look into it. It’s Dept of Energy head Mr. Chu that needs to go along with any other commies.
  
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- ScienceIsNotEvil
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 12:35pm
  The-Monk,
  
  No I am not. Search for TEA party defund department of energy.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:55pm
Whaaaaaattt?

The Russians have Nuclear weapons????

I thought Obama took care of all that stuff already……

Oh, silly me…. it was “our” nukes he wanted to get rid of.

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thegoldman
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:36pm
“I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,

Why destroy them. We should use them in the mid east thats all the less to destroy.

Kind of like killing 2 birds with one stone !

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:34pm
Obama seeks to disarm our nation completely with his insane “nuclear zero’ agenda while China and Russia are rearming and modernizing their arsenals.

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- ScienceIsNotEvil
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 9:01pm
  The Dept of Energy maintains and owns every last nuclear weapon in our stockpile and is responsible for all R&D into improvements. Give this fact those of you who are for totally defunding the DOE have a little be of explaining to do.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 9:15pm
  Hey ScienceIsNotEvil,
  
  You’re getting the Department of Education (DoE) confused with the Department of Energy (DoE).
  
  Look into it. It’s Dept of Energy head Mr. Chu that needs to go along with any other commies.
  
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- jeanr
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:46pm
  Well we still spend more on military than the rest of the world combined. I’m sure somebody will notice if, all of the sudden, it disappeared.
  
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hi
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:33pm
Doesn’t Russia play a big part in the End of Times?

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tonypro
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:33pm
“”Obama has made his commitment to total nuclear disarmament perfectly clear.”"

The sad part is his total disarmament only seems to include the U.S.

Not the first, nor will it be the last time I say it, this POS in our W.H. is bent on the destruction of this country.

Don’t take my word for it, just ask his mentors.

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kickagrandma
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:30pm
Oh, that it would drop right on top of you evil head!

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cloudsofwar
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:29pm
isn’t it great that we have obama as prez. his policies are working. soon we will no longer be a socialist nation but a commie nation. thank you comrade obama, 4 more years then forever. ROMNEY 2012 or else.

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- barber2
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:10pm
  CLOUDS: Agree. Notice all of the world wide bombings of late ? Yeah, Obama’s foreign policy designs are sure working…..not sure for whom ….
  
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