Q & A with Podvig on nuclear weapons and non-proliferation
(Reddit) Pavel Podvig is the researcher behind the RussianForces.org web site, the editor of the book "Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces." He is currently based in Geneva where he works as a…
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Sokov: We face an unrestricted arms race in two very dangerous categories
(VICE) Donald Trump says the United States has fallen behind and must return to the “top of the pack” in nuclear weapons capability. The president on Thursday called a recent report of a missile…
Doomed to Cooperate: US-Russian Lab-to-Lab Collaboration
(New Book) An account edited by Siegfried Hecker, Doomed to Cooperate tells the story of the collaboration through the words of American and Russian scientists who traveled to each other’s nuclear complexes…
Blurring the line between nuclear and nonnuclear weapons: Increasing the risk of accidental nuclear war?
(Routledge) In the past few months, there have been a number of provocative events between Russia and the West: Russian jets buzz US warships in the Black Sea. Turkey, a…
Nuclear Security and Arms Control Are Non-Issues for Russia
(EDM) Russia’s absence from the nuclear summit in Washington, DC, last week was entirely predictable and yet baffling. Moscow announced its non-participation last November, and Secretary of State John Kerry…
U.S.-Russia Nuclear Lab-to-Lab Cooperation: Looking Back on a Quarter Century of Constructive Relations
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With the latest protracted nosedive in U.S.-Russia relations, when areas of cooperation have continued to shrink, it is beneficial to reflect on historically constructive joint endeavors,…
Baev: Soviet troops were far better organized, trained, and supplied than today
(POLITICO) HELSINKI — When Leonid Brezhnev was in charge of the Soviet Union, he did not see much need to threaten Europe with his country’s vast nuclear arsenal: The USSR’s overwhelming…
The Nuclear Factor in Global Politics: Myths and Reality
(RIAC) Commemorating the 70-year tragic anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seems appropriate to once again ponder over the role of nuclear weapons in the world, as…
Baev: Kremlin sees nuclear weapons as ultimate proof that Russia is a great power
(The Japan Times) In the nervous aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, people worldwide spent decades on alert for a nuclear war that would wipe out billions in a radioactive firestorm and…
Baev: Most valuable Russian contribution to Iran deal was refraining from role of spoiler
(Voice of America) President Barack Obama said Russia was a "help" in securing the deal to limit Iran's nuclear program. In addition to that praise, printed in the New York…