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Did the "Oreshnik" Change the World?

Have we entered a new era of warfare?

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Tuomas Malinen
Nov 29, 2024
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Let’s marvel this one more time.

This is a video of Russia striking a Yuzhmash rocket-plant in Dnipro with a new type of hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), “Oreshnik” (hazelnut tree), with a non-nuclear payload, in the early morning of the 21st of November. But, did it also change the whole concept of nuclear deterrence overnight?

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