World War 3 Confirmed.

Where's Solid Snake when we need him? He'd disable those nukes, AND fight a ninja!

*retreats back into fantasy world*

This must be more western propaganda. The Russians are our friends!!

Some of you guys are biased. You think the US wouldn't retalitate somehow if Russia decided to put a few nukes in Canada? The US is the most aggressive nation in the world. They are on everyone else's soil yet they would never let anyone put weapons remotely close to them.

umm... Iran and North Korea say hi.

OT: This is not good. When people start talking about using nukes, it's time to get really nervous

Funny, and here I thought that it was Russia threatening to nuke Poland =P

As for people putting weapons near us...of course we don't want another country putting weapons near us, and I wouldn't expect any other nation to enjoy it either.  But guess what?  Missile Defense is not a weapon, its a .../gasp defense.

At least in the last 30 or so years they haven't been near as aggressive as the US has...

I'm gonna have to brush up on my Defcon skills.  First countries down?  Canada and Mexico!

What in the hell is wrong with Russia these days?

The U.S. is attempting to set up a nuclear missile shield base in Poland. Russia assumes (rightly or wrongly... most likely rightly) that the purpose is to allow the United States to free itself of MAD (mutually assured destruction) in case of a Nuclear arms engagement with Russia. The logical step for Russia would be to consider the equipment in such a defensive system to be a fair target regardless of what country it's in. And since the system is primarily for the purpose of a Nuclear arms exchange, they'll already be flying, so that very well might be what Russia is firing at those targets.

It's monstrous and insane, but that's the nature of the beast, not Russia's response to it.

The real lesson here is that we desperately need to reinstate the priority of nuclear disarmament to both the collective conscience and the highest political levels.