Russia successfully tested on Friday its two new Bulava intercontinental missiles, which experienced several failures in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n The Defence Ministry said the 12-meter-long Bulava, or Mace, which Moscow aims to make the cornerstone of its nuclear arsenal, was fired from a submarine in the Arctic White Sea and hit the target, a designated polygon, on Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east.<\/span><\/p>\n “The launch was carried out from (the submarine in) submerged position in the White Sea,” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov was quoted by state-run RIA news agency as saying. “Its warheads reached the polygon (target) on time.”<\/p>\n The missiles carry dummies rather than nuclear warheads as Russia is a signatory of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) which bans all nuclear explosions.<\/p>\n The Bulava had failed half of its previous trials, calling into question the expensive missile program. The previous launch in June from the same submarine was a success though.<\/p>\n A Bulava missile weighs 36.8 tonnes and can travel a distance of 8 000 km miles carrying 6-10 nuclear warheads, which would deliver an impact of up to 100 times the atomic blast that devastated Hiroshima in 1945. — Reuters<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia successfully tested on Friday its two new Bulava intercontinental missiles, which experienced several failures in the past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n