Nato failing to recognise threat from Russia and China: book
The Australian counterinsurgency specialist, David Kilcullen, has written a book warning Nato that Russia and China have used civilian techniques…
Tag: nuclear
Russia unveils land-based missile programme
Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, has called for the development of land-based intermediate-range missiles by 2021. He told the military…
Nazi nuclear saboteur dies, 99
The Norwegian insurgent credited with stopping the Nazi Germany from acquiring nuclear weapons has died at 99. Joachim Roenneberg headed…
Russia, Germany condemn Trump arms treaty threat
Russia has threatened a renewed arms race after Donald Trump threatened to pull the US out of a 1980s nuclear…
Kaliningrad nuclear bunker restored: claim
Satellite pictures appear to show Russia has upgraded a nuclear weapons bunker in Kaliningrad as tensions with the west continue…
Europe ditches Trump over Iran
European powers have moved to protect the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement by vowing to take steps to protect their firms…
‘Floating Chernobyl’ leaves St Petersburg
The Akademik Lomonosov (pictured), called Russia’s “floating Chernobyl” by environmentalists, is due to be wired into the electrical grid in…
Macron admits defeat over Iran deal
Donald Trump is likely to axe the Iran nuclear deal, according to French President Emanuel Macron, adding that he is…
Russian nuclear scientists held in Bitcoin bust
Engineers at Russia’s principal nuclear research plant have been detained for allegedly attempting to mine bitcoin on its supercomputer. Several…
Russian who prevented nuclear war dies
On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, then 44, was on overnight duty at Serpukhov-15, a bunker southwest of…
Hidden Soviet nuclear Armageddon
Kurchatov Rotunda. Source: Wikimedia In the endless forests of Russia’s Ural mountains lies the hidden city of Ozersk, locked behind…
Moscow eyes Kaliningrad nuclear base
Kaliningrad should be on everyone’s radar, especially while the world is gripped by the Brexit crisis. Source: Wikimedia Moscow…