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Russian General Threatens To Base Nuclear Strategic Bombers In Cuba

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Monday, July 28th, 2008

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Move Would Be Russian Retaliation For American Missile Defense System To Shield Europe From Iranian Missiles A Russian general said Russia may base or at least refuel strategic bombers carrying nuclear weapons at an airfield in Cuba just 90 miles from the United States. That would retaliate for U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland as a shield against Iranian ballistic missiles, according to RIA Novosti in Moscow, which quoted Izvestia. The Cuban-basing…

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