Hello good morning its 10 oclock here in moscow youre watching r. T. International the us has conducted its 1st test of a 500 kilometer Cruise Missile a type of previously banned for over 30 years under a now defunct arms control treaty between washington and moscow. Has more. Well we have official word from the pentagon that indeed there has been a test of a missile that would have violated the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty that treaty has now expired and the usa has conducted a test of a missile that would have violated it heres what we heard from the pentagon the department of defense conducted to fly test of the conventionally configured ground Cruise Missile the u. S. West coast sunday the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately in practice target after more than 500. 00 flight now the test was conducted on San Nicolas Island off the coast of california we understand furthermore that the test was announced on august 2nd the very day that the i. N.