Russia Scraps Nuclear Missile Trains
One of the most terrifying weapons of the Cold War is no more. On Wednesday, the Russian Federation scrapped the last of its 36 BZHRK nuclear trains.
While the official reason given for scrapping the system was "the expiration of the guaranteed life cycle," the BZHRK system's capabilities exceeded the newer Topol and Bulava missile systems.
The system thoroughly unnerved the Pentagon because it was impossible to distinguish the BZHRKs from the thousands of regular freight trains traversing the Soviet Union.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Cold War Relic Decommissioned
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