Russia's Provocative Display of New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Raises Tensions with the West
Russian rocket forces have loaded a new Yars intercontinental ballistic missile into a silo at the Kozelsk base in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow. The RS-24 (Yars) missile is designed to carry multiple nuclear warheads and is part of Russia's extensive arsenal of nuclear weapons, which is the largest in the world.