The Cold War never ended, it has only evolved, and appears to be warming up.
Russia Tests Measures Vs. Missile Defense By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press Writer
February 10, 2004, 2:38 PM EST
(Snip) MOSCOW -- Russia is in the midst of a strategic military exercise motivated in part by Moscow's concerns about U.S. plans to develop new types of nuclear weapons, a top general said Tuesday.
The exercise, which began in late January on the headquarters level, will later involve the launch of several ballistic missiles and flights by strategic bombers, said Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces.
Baluyevsky dismissed media reports that the exercise closely resembles Soviet-era simulations of an all-out nuclear war with the United States, saying that it's not directed against any specific country.
"The enemy is imaginary," Baluyevsky said at a news conference. "There is no hint whatsoever that the enemy is the United States, or any other country."....