nuclear weapons

Following President Obama's decision to scrap the proposed European Missile Defence Shield, the Kremlin has reportedly dropped plans to deploy ballistic missiles in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
 

Yesterday, 3rd August,  President Medvedev signed an executive order appointing Lieutenant General Andrei Shvaichenko to the position of commander of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces and releasing him from his previous duties as chief of staff and first deputy commander of the Strategic Missile Forces.
The same executive order released Colonel General Nikolai Solovtsov from the post of commander of the Strategic Missile Forces and retired him from military service.