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[Link] A Rare Look Inside Russia’s Massive ‘Satan’ Nuclear Missile
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
In April 2022, two months after Russia escalated its invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin test fired a RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a weapon the West calls the Satan 2.
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[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.
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[Link] America Has Slightly Reduced Its Nuclear Arsenal
Read: 10/10/2021 www.vice.com
The Biden administration revealed how many nukes America has on Tuesday, abandoning a Trump-era policy of nuclear secrecy. Between its active and stored nukes, the U.S. is sitting on 3,750 world-ending weapons as of the last official count in September 2020.
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[Link] Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known
Read: 2/6/2021 www.nytimes.com
The famed source of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has made another unauthorized disclosure — and wants to be prosecuted for it.
[Link] US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps
Read: 2/6/2021 www.bellingcat.com
Practice weapons are usually recognisable by their colours. The B61’s are silver/grey (sometimes referred to as the “silver bullet”), while BDU-38’s appear to be white.
[Link] Trident, aid and spies: key points in UK's integrated review
Read: 26/3/2021 www.theguardian.com
Trident: Cap on the nuclear warhead stockpile to increase for first time since the end of the cold war, to 260, ending a previous target of reducing it to 180 by the mid-2020s.