Russia will deploy nukes if shut out of missile defense
Putin told CNN's Larry King that Russia will deploy nukes if the country is shut out of collaboration on a Western missile defense system.
Russia and Kazakhstan will merge their missile defence systems, with the agreement to this effect due to be signed in 2013, the Commander of the Kazakh aerial defence, Colonel Nourzhan Moukanov, has told a news conference held in the town of Cholpon-Ata, on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul.