Over the past few days, something terrifying has emerged in Russia, largely unreported in the US media, and a direct result of the Bush administration's terrible policies on non-proliferation and nuclear weapons. Russia is deploying new ICBMs.

A mobile version of Russia’s single-warhead Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) entered service Dec. 4.

Russia accelerated its efforts to build a mobile Topol-M (SS-27 by NATO classification) in 2002, after Washington withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to deploy missile defenses. The U.S. withdrawal was widely regarded in Moscow as an attempt to tilt the strategic nuclear balance in Washington’s favor.

In case you forgot, Bush gave notice that the US was withdrawing from the ABM Treaty in December of 2001 so that America could continue developing the miracle defense shield that would protect us from all of those nuclear weapons that Al Qaeda was certain to launch.