The website is supported by Pavel Podvig. He has been the principal investigator of the Russian Nuclear Forces project from its very beginning and was the editor of the Russian and English editions of the book Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Pavel Podvi
Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
Link to PDF of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , Volume 65, Number 6, November/December 2009 DOI 10.2968/065006010 Online Date Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Authors Robert S. Norris, Hans M. Kristensen. "As the United States and Russia continue to conso
By CARL BILDT and RADEK SIKORSKI Published: February 1, 2010 The actual numbers are obviously closely held secrets. A recent report by the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament indicates that the United States possesses appr
Timothy Garton Ash on the Global Zero initiative in The Globe and Mail, publ 3 Feb 2010. "Effective nuclear disarmament will require intrusive verification, which most of the sovereignty-conscious great powers are extremely reluctant to concede. Indeed,
Pourquoi la France concentrerait-elle les critiques, et non la Chine ? Nous sommes dans la ligne de mire. Les militants pour l'abolition ont le sentiment que les "petits" pays dotés de l'arme, comme la France, sont un maillon faible et qu'on peut donc foc
The NPR explicitly rejects reducing the high-alert status of ICBMs and strategic submarines (SSBNs), concluding that “the current alert posture of U.S. strategic forces - with heavy bombers off full-time alert, nearly all ICBMs on alert, and a significant
"It was announced yesterday that the United States will have a missile defense shield to cover its allies by 2018. Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, told the House of Representatives Armed Serv
Reuters 15 april 2010 av Jim Wolf Usas antiballistiska missilsystem ska år 2018 täcka hela Europa, sa en tjänsteman vid Pentagon och utmålade ett ambitiöst mål för försvaret av ett upplevt hot utifrån Iran. ”Ett hundra procent,” sa Bradley Roberts, vid fö
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:"Stephen I. Schwartz and Deepti Choubey have determined for the first time that the United States spent over $52 billion on nuclear weapons and related programs in fiscal year 2008, figures that even the govern
by Kyoungeun Cha, who works for the Peace Network in South Korea."The U.S. and South Korean government are expanding their military alliance, and if the naval base on Jeju Island is set up, the U.S. navy will use the base to monitor China’s naval power. B
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
Juni 2008. "Lissabonfördragets påverkan på EU:s gemensamma utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik och den europeiska säkerhets- och försvarspolitiken var huvudfrågan i två betänkanden som Europaparlamentet antog idag. Europaparlamentet efterlyser en större parlame
William Pentland, Forbes, Mar. 11 2011 - 7:23 pm Image by Hyougushi via Flickr The United States military and other nations are scrambling to support the government of Japan’s efforts to avoid a nuclear meltdown at a nuclear facility affected by the massi