[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] How Russia Used the War in Ukraine to ‘Occupy’ Another Neighbouring Country

Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com

The Belarusian dictator’s complicity in letting his country be used by Russia to attack Ukraine has effectively turned Belarus into a Russian client state and amounts to an occupation, the country’s opposition says.

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[Link] China Denies Secretly Testing a Missile That Could Drop Nukes at Any Point in the World

Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com

On July 19, China announced its 77th launch of the Long March 2C rocket, carrying three satellite sensors to orbit. The next month, the same rocket was used to put three telecommunications satellites in space. What happened next confounded observers. China said the second launch, on Aug.

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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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