enough weapons to destroy one another many times over, and both still have their weapons on hair trigger alert. An example of the danger this poses was in January 1995, when a Norwegian scientific rocket was fired in the North Sea. Russian early warning systems mistook it for a missile attack by the west and the briefcase containing the Russian nuclear missile launch codes was activated for the first time before the launch was deemed peaceful. 80
             Whilst it would be unfair to accuse the US and Russia of not trying to reduce the number of missiles, it could be argued that Russia and the US still keep some of their cold war paranoia and posturing. Although both countries were aware that a nuclear war could not be won, they appear to only be willing to reduce their arsenal not remove all their nuclear weapons. 68
             In October last year, Russia announced that it would not ratify the Comprehensive test ban treaty until its technology caught up with the US. "The Head of the Russian parliaments defence committee, Roman Popkovich said
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