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Tue, Jun 16th, 2015
Putin: Russia to boost nuclear arsenal with 40 missiles
Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves a podium at the Army-2015 international military show outside Moscow, 16 June 2015
President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will put more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles into service this year.
It is part of a wide-reaching programme to modernise the country’s military.
The move comes after the US proposed increasing its military presence in Nato states in Eastern Europe.
BBC
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