The commander of the military’s Northern Command warned this week that Moscow is deploying conventionally armed missiles that for the first time are capable of striking targets deep inside the United States.
Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, who is also commander of the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Command (NORAD), stated in prepared congressional testimony that while Russian nuclear missiles have threatened the country for more than 50 years, Moscow "only recently developed and deployed capabilities to threaten us below the nuclear threshold."
The new threats include offensive cyberattacks and a new generation of air- and sea-launched cruise missiles.
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