“The Pentagon has postponed a scheduled intercontinental ballistic missile test, in an effort to reduce the chances that it would be ‘misconstrued’ by Moscow just days after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin raised the alert level for his nuclear forces,” the Financial Times reports.
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