{"id":36284,"date":"2019-08-06T08:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=36284"},"modified":"2019-08-06T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:54:57","slug":"russia-if-the-us-develops-new-nuclear-missiles-we-will-too-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=36284","title":{"rendered":"Russia If the US Develops New Nuclear Missiles, We Will Too: Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/putin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/putin.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/putin-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/putin-598x340.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption> <br>Russian President, Vladimir Putin, instructed the Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry and Foreign Intelligence Service to monitor further steps of the U.S. Photo courtesy of Telesur<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Aug 6 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Monday that Moscow would start developing short and intermediate-range land-based nuclear missiles if the United States does so as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf Russia obtains reliable information that the United States has finished developing these systems and started to produce them, Russia will have no option other than to engage in a full-scale effort to develop similar missiles,\u201d Putin said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>This would mean to include the X-101 and Kinzhal air-based missiles, sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles and prospective systems, including hypersonic Zircon missiles, the president explained, adding however that Russia will not abandon its unilateral obligations, and all its actions will be exclusively reciprocal.<\/p><cite> <br>Russia will not abandon its unilateral obligations, and all its actions will be exclusively reciprocal, Putin affirmed.\u00a0 <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes as the U.S.\u00a0announced\u00a0on Aug. 2 that it has abandoned the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed with Russia, claiming that Moscow refused to destroy the Novator 9M729, a cruise missile that has a range of 311 miles, which violate the agreement\u2019s terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pact banned land-based missiles with a range of between 310 and 3,400 miles (500-5,500 km), reducing the ability of both countries to launch a nuclear strike at short notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, the U.S. has accused Russia of violating this treaty that prohibits both countries from manufacturing, deploying or testing short-range (311-621 miles) missiles and medium-range (621-3,418 miles) missiles. However, the evidence for these accusations has not been presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind those arguments lacking evidence, other circumstances and intentions have been hidden, among which is the interest of the U.S. to control China\u2019s military growth, as they have invited the Asian nation to &#8220;a new era&#8221; of arms control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nNNN-TELESUR\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Aug 6 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Monday that Moscow would start developing short and intermediate-range land-based nuclear missiles if the United States does so as well. \u201cIf Russia obtains reliable information that the United States has finished developing these systems and started to produce them, Russia will have no option other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":36285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}