PATRIOT PARK in Kubinka, 6okm southwest of Moscow, is a military Disneyland. Families can picnic among rows of Soviet-era aircraft. Children can frolic over tanks. Those doing so on January 23rd might have noticed a long green tube, studded with ridges and dials, roped off and watched by stern guards. This was not an exhibit. It was, supposedly, the canister for the 9M729 missile. Its launcher, an imposing truck, stood nearby, as Lieutenant-Gen-eral Mikhail Matveyevsky, Russia's missile chief, pointed to a diagram of the missile's innards. "All tests of surface-to-surface missiles," he declared, "were conducted to a range that is less than the INF [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] treaty limit."
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