Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
I am @russianforces on Twitter and https://russianforces.org on the web. Bio and publications are at https://russianforces.org/podvig
In his cover feature for #ArmsControlToday this month,
@russianforces researcher Pavel Podvig suggests that despite the problems facing nuclear arms control today, the system is not entirely broken.
Read "Restoring Russian-U.S. Arms Control" at https://www.ArmsControl.org/Today.
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty members meet in Vienna next week to begin another cycle of assessing progress on nonproliferation and disarmament. A contentious part of the NPT debate will likely involve the NPT countries that do not have nuclear weapons but host nuclear weapons belonging to the United States or Russia, which recently announced it would station nuclear weapons in Belarus.
Empire and colonies: an introduction
1. Russia imposes Communism in Czechia
2. Making it difficult to impossible to function without paying lip service to the Communist shibboleths
3. Now Russians are criticising Czechs for having paid the lip service to the said shibboleths https://twitter.com/russianforces/status/1619767757360492545
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1620083362491936770
Petr Pavel is the embodiment of conformism - from the communist party to NATO HQ - and yet he feels he can lecture Navalny about nationalism. Pathetic.
New Czech president Petr Pavel about navalny: “He’s definitely not a liberal democrat, he’s another kind of russian nationalist.”
In 2016, U.S. said it will allow the IAEA to monitor the plutonium disposition process. It is not known if the IAEA was monitoring this shipment
US begins shipping excess plutonium to WIPP for disposition https://fissilematerials.org/blog/2023/01/us_begins_shipping_excess.html This is the "dilute and dispose" program that will place up to 6 MT of non-pit plutonium in WIPP.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fissilematerial/status/1619044715441307649
In December 2022 US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of Environmental Management completed the first shipment of plutonium from the K-Area of the Savannah River Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Mew Mexico....
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