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Date: 2009-06-10 (Wednesday)
"Our position is that we cannot go below the level of 1,500 nuclear warheads. But the final decision is to be made by the country's political leadership."
-- Nikolai Solovtsov, Russian Strategic Rocket Forces Commander, at a meeting of the Defense Ministry's Public Council, at the training center of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces' Military Academy






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