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2016/12/06 - 03:49 •
Analysis & Opinion, Featured, Military analysis
By now, it is a well-known story: in the early 1990s, Ukraine surrendered the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal inherited from the collapsed Soviet Union in exchange for security assurances from nuclear weapons states, which Russia...
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2016/11/01 - 19:59 •
Analysis & Opinion, Military analysis, Russia
The Russian government has proudly announced that it has bomb shelters for all Muscovites in the event of a nuclear strike, but officials involved with maintaining these facilities say that at best they would save only 50,000 to 100,000 of...
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2016/04/29 - 04:48 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
Thirty years ago this week, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident set in train the forces that destroyed the Soviet Union and that are still driving it apart. Not only did it force Mikhail Gorbachev to turn to glasnost after initially...
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2016/01/25 - 16:28 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
As the defenders of Vladimir Putin do everything they can to muddy the waters about his role in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, his opponents are in all too many cases unwittingly aiding this process by focusing on side issues like the...
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2015/04/27 - 18:03 •
Analysis & Opinion
Saskatoon, February 1993| April 26 is the anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. The most important information agreed on at this stage is that the sixty three kilograms of radioactive material thrust into the atmosphere by the two...
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2015/04/12 - 20:58 •
Military analysis
The western world will soon witness a further escalation of Russia’s crusade with the western world. The Ukrainian military and some NATO and US military experts have tried to warn the West and urged political and economic responses,...
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2015/02/08 - 01:35 •
Op-ed
There are two reasons why Germany’s Merkel and France’s Hollande humiliated themselves in Moscow. The first one is to prevent the delivery of weapons to Ukraine. Those and other European politicians are supported by various...
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