Russian nuclear submarines have sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea near the Arctic and mobile missile launchers are roaming Siberia. The drills come days after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's nuclear forces put on high alert.
Putin’s decree applied to all parts of the Russian nuclear triad, which like in the U.S., consists of nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear-tipped land-based ICBMs and nuclear-capable strategic bombers. The United States and Russia have the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world, by far.
Russia and the U.S. have the land- and submarine-based segments of their strategic nuclear forces on alert and prepared for combat at all times, but nuclear-capable bombers and other aircraft are not. One party raising the nuclear-combat readiness of bombers or ordering more ICBM-carrying submarines to sea would ring alarm bells for another.
Putin’s order heightened already soaring tensions, drawing comparisons to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that saw Moscow and Washington teetering on the brink of a nuclear conflict.that froze Russia’s hard currency reserves, an unprecedented move that threatened to have devastating consequences for the its economy and finances.
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