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Colin Powell: “Since neither the United States nor Russia has any incentive to launch nuclear weapons at each other, we no longer view…”

On the recordJune 16, 2010
Since neither the United States nor Russia has any incentive to launch nuclear weapons at each other, we no longer view the Russian deployment of MIRVed ICBMs as destabilizing to our strategic relationship.
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Colin Powell

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Colin Powell stated that the U.S. and Russia lack incentives to launch nuclear weapons at each other.

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