This is the third nuclear drill Russia has announced and conducted in the past few months.
It held the first in May and the second, with Belarus,in June.
We typically think of nuclear weapons as missiles and bombs that destroy cities or the world.
Russian soldiers load an Iskander missile during a tactical nuclear drill.© Russian MoD video screengrab.
From Russias point of view, thats a lot of tactical nukes very close to Moscow.
Soldiers in balaclavas flank this object as it trundles down the road.
The convoy pulls deeper into the forest and the men prepare the launcher to receive its payload.
© Russian MoD video screengrab.
The Iskander-M is a short-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Oddly, the nose cone of the missile is blurred out in the footage.
A second video is more clear.
©Russia MoD video screengrab.
The R-33s werent blurred out and were as closely guarded as the Iskander-M, but theyprobably arent nuclear.
Tensions have grown between the White House and the Kremlin over the past decade.
On July 10, the White House announced it would begin sporadic deployments of newlong range missiles in Germany.
Putin saw this as a threat and promised to match whatever theUnited States deployed.
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