Russia successfully tested two new Bulava intercontinental missiles on Friday. These missiles have experienced several failures in the past.
The Defence Ministry
said the 12-meter-long Bulava, or Mace, which Moscow aims to make the
cornerstone of its nuclear arsenal, was fired from a submarine in the Arctic White Sea.. It hit the target, a designated polygon, on Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east.
The missiles carry dummies rather than nuclear warheads as Russia is a part of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) which bans all nuclear explosions.
The Bulava had
failed half of its prior trials, questioning the expensive
missile program.
A Bulava missile
weighs 36.8 tonnes and can travel a distance of 8,000 km (5,000) miles
carrying 6-10 nuclear warheads, which would deliver an impact of up to
100 times the atomic blast that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.
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