Was it just an unfortunate coincidence or a calculated political statement? Russia test-fired a next-generation nuclear missile that was visible over Norway on the eve of President Barack Obama's visit to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Bulava-30 submarine-launched ballistic missile is the most modern strategic nuclear missile in the world. It has yet to be perfected, and the system, as well as its platform, the new Borei-class ballistic missile submarine, has proceeded in fits and starts.
But there is no mistaking Russia's continued, Cold War-style belligerence on a range of fronts. And now, with a bizarre white spiral and blue tail illuminating the black Arctic sky as the multiple-warhead missile arced toward space, our leaders have to ask if Moscow is trying to send us a signal that most of the world would rather ignore.
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