Russian state TV in saber-rattling over US missiles
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Russian state television has listed US military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes.
The targets included the Pentagon and the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland.
The report, unusual even by the sometimes bellicose standards of Russian state TV, was broadcast on Sunday evening, days after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was militarily ready for a 鈥淐uban Missile鈥-style crisis if the United States wanted one.
With tensions rising over Russian fears that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe as a Cold War-era arms-control treaty unravels, Putin has said Russia would be forced to respond by placing hypersonic nuclear missiles on submarines near US waters.
The United States says it has no immediate plans to deploy such missiles in Europe and has dismissed Putin鈥檚 warnings as disingenuous propaganda. It does not currently have ground-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles that it could place in Europe.
However, its decision to quit the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty over an alleged Russian violation, something Moscow denies, has freed it to start developing and deploying such missiles.
Putin has said Russia does not want a new arms race, but has also dialed up his military rhetoric.
Some analysts have seen his approach as a tactic to try to re-engage the US in talks about the strategic balance between the two powers, something Moscow has long pushed for, with mixed results.
In the Sunday broadcast, Dmitry Kiselyov, presenter of Russia鈥檚 main weekly TV news show 鈥淰esti Nedeli,鈥 showed a map of the US and identified targets he said Moscow would want to hit in a nuclear war.
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