VLADIMIR Putin is overseeing exercises involving the launching of ballistic missiles , according to the RIA news agency. This news comes with a numbing inevitability . From the very beginning of the nuclear arms race this was predictable. At the end of 1945, in Operation Paperclip, more than 1,600 rocket scientists, engineers, and technicians were sneaked away from Germany to the US. These unrepentant Nazis (notably Werner Von Braun) all received US citizenship and gave America dominance in the nuclear arms race . Four years later, the Soviet Union responded by developing their own Bomb in 1949, and our race...