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Article: Putin Resorting to Cold War Threats; Russian President Vladimir Putin increases the KGB influence in his government and simulates a nuclear attack on the United States in his re-election campaign.(THE WORLD)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- March 29, 2004
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Byline: J. Michael Waller, INSIGHT
It was the ultimate campaign stunt: The president, clad in a navy uniform and white gloves, at sea on a sunny morning, standing on the deck of a giant titanium-hulled ballistic-missile submarine. He looked on smartly as the military began a weeklong exercise to unleash its triad of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles and strategic bombers in the biggest nuclear doomsday drill since the coldest days of the Cold War.
The president's administration officially billed it as an "antiterrorism" exercise. But as land-based missiles arched their way a third of the way around the ...