-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI FEB 16, 2001 08:01 ET XXXXX FOUR MINUTES APART: RUSSIA TESTS MISSLES BY LAND AND BY SEA Russia test-fired nuclear-capable ballistic missiles from both land and sea on Friday, it has been reported. The tests came back-to-back, less than four minutes apart, according to ITAR-TASS. MOSCOW, February 16 (Itar-Tass) - A missile submarine of the Northern Fleet launched a ballistic missile on Friday at 13.28 PM Moscow time during a strategic command and staff exercise of the Russian Armed Forces. MOSCOW, February 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian strategic missile troops successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile "Topol" at 13:34 PM Friday. The ballistic missile was launched in accordance with a scheduled military drill. The intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Plesetsk cosmodrome in the north of Russia. MORE The tests come amid increasingly angry exchanges of words between Moscow and Washington over weapons proliferation and U.S. anti-missile defense plans. Russia says it will counter proposed U.S. defenses by beefing up its land, sea and air nuclear deterrents. Leonid Ivashov, the head of the chief international military cooperation department of the Russian Defence Ministry, said on Friday: The deployment of the National missile defence [NMD] system by the USA will lead to the destruction of strategic stability and resumption of the arms race. NEW ARMS RACE TO BE WORSE THAN AT TIME OF COLD WAR, RUSSIAN GENERAL DECLARES "Multiple statements by high-ranking officials of the Administration and the new U.S. President that the NMD will be unquestionably deployed are conspicuous," Ivashov said. "The U.S. is making it clear that it does not intend to take seriously objections expressed by Russia, China and other states as concerns such activities." "Our estimates show that NMD deployment will result in upsetting the strategic balance between 'the shield and the sword'. "This will result in a new spiral in arms race, involving outer space, and an additional impetus to proliferation of rocket technologies. Incidentally, in a worse version than at the time of the cold war," the general declared. If the United States deploys a national missile defense system, it will be virtually spearheaded at the Russian and Chinese rocket potentials, Ivashov said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
