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re: Purely hypothetical question.

Somehow I don't see increased U.S.-Russia cooperation in the future with Russia rearming itself.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4844743.html

May 29, 2007, 4:34PM
Russia: ICBM can penetrate any defense system

By STEVE GUTTERMAN
Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russia tested new missiles today that a Kremlin official boasted could penetrate any defense system, and President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe would turn the region into a "powder keg."

First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Russia tested an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple independent warheads, and it also successfully conducted a "preliminary" test of a tactical cruise missile that he said could fly farther than existing, similar weapons.

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