<p>Threat - an indication of impending danger or harm.
U.S. is definitly in it for the oil if they didn’t see this coming. The report comes from Itar-Tass (a Russian news agency <a href=“http://itar-tass.com/eng/[/url]”>http://itar-tass.com/eng/</a> ). It reported the test launch of a ballistic missile called the Topol RS 12 at 8:10 pm Moscow time. The missle was launched at Kapustny and hit a target in Balkash, Kazakhstan - in 24 minutes, it had to be flying at a speed of 3 miles a second, 180 miles a minute, 10,800 miles an hour. NASA’s X43 flies at 7,200 miles per hour…</p>
<p>Not that its only fast, it can be manoeuvred mid-flight, which makes it impossible to predict its trajectory. A standard ICBM can be taken down by detonating a nuclear warhead from as far as 10 kilometres, Russia’s Topol supposedly doesn’t even blink till it gets as close as 500 meters. With its speed and manuverability, its near impossible to get a warhead that close. The US Air Force currently operates just over 500 ICBMs at around 15 missile complexes. The Topol doesn’t have to be on a base, all it needs is the back of a truck; and trucks can be driven anywhere, anytime. This makes it impossible to monitor how many, and impossible to determine where it has been fired.</p>
<p>So what does this mean? Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer and weapons inspector in the Soviet Union and Iraq:</p>
<p>“The Bush administration’s dream of a viable NMD has been rendered fantasy by the Russian test of the SS-27 Topol-M. To counter the SS-27 threat, the US will need to start from scratch.”</p>
<p>I did some extra research and I found something interesting, this was being developed in MIT. Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology. So guys what do you think, Cold War II??</p>