Image: Russian Iskander missiles on the 9P78-1 Transporter erector launcher at the Victory Day Parade rehearsal in Moscow in 2010. (Author: A. Savin / CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia Commons)
As someone who loves Armenia, my first response to the news that my country had purchased advanced Russian missiles capable of hitting targets hundreds of kilometers from Armenian territory was: “Good — they will make us safer.”
But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered whether that was true.
The reason is that Iskander 9K720 missiles can carry nuclear as well as conventional warheads, and Armenia has the scientific capability and …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
