Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense

June 18, 2015

NATO says implementing 'biggest' defence boost since Cold War
Zagan, Poland (AFP) June 17, 2015
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday the alliance was implementing its biggest defence reinforcement since the Cold War, as the region grapples with terrorism and an increasingly assertive Russia. He spoke a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year. "NATO is facing a new security environment, both caused by violence, turmoil, instability in the south - ISIL in Iraq, Syria, North Af ... read more

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