potential missile launches in the atlantic. russia already has doubled its long-range bomber patrols around u.s. coastlines in the last year. now ten a year more than 100 around europe, the most flights since the cold war. in the last month, several u.s. officials publicly sounding the warning. russia s provocations are only more worrisome in light of vladimir putin s intense focus on building up and modernizing russia s military forces. reporter: the top u.s. commander in europe even raising nuclear weapons concerns. there are those dual use weapons systems that could very easily be nuclear or non-nuclear and our ability to tell the difference between one and the other is very tough. this is very worrisome. reporter: now, these increased air patrols by the russians some of it to thumb their nose at the united states but there is a good deal of