Russia plans to test-launch seven intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2024, Sergei Karakayev, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, has said, the Interfax news agency reported on December 16. Russia has given the United States at least 24 hours notice of such launches and Washington has afforded Moscow the same courtesy, Interfax cited Karakayev as telling the Russian Army's official Red Star newspaper. Russia and the United States possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals.
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