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American efforts to ground Russia’s SS-18, the world’s most potent strategic missile, are a result of having lived under the shadow of fear. In the entire history of the human race, there has never ...

In the late 1960s, the Soviet Union jumped ahead of the United States' first strike capability in a big way. The latest version of the R-36 intercontinental ballistic missile (called SS-18 by NATO) ...

The Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau just recently published the first image of the newest heavy intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-28 Sarmat (also known under NATO’s reporting name SS-X-30). It ...