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The Soviets’ Dark Nuclear Romance
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The Soviets’ Dark Nuclear Romance

  • December 21, 2020
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(War on the Rocks podcast) Once the Soviets got the nuclear arsenal Stalin had sought, they had to learn to live with the bomb – and all the dilemmas that came…
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Podvig: The value of New START is largely that it keeps the lines of communication open and it is the place for dialogue

  • December 7, 2020
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Podvig: What one side sees as obfuscating, the other side considers it is strictly following the letter of the Treaty

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Podvig: Very few of Russia’s Avangard hypersonic glider tests were successful and the programme was nearly shut down four years ago

  • April 5, 2019
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(The Economist) Tom lehrer’s satirical ditty on the Nazi-turned-American rocketeer was faithful to the essence of early missile development, whose principal challenge was hoisting the weapons into the sky. Gravity did most…
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Podvig: Russia’s hypersonic weapons don’t fundamentally change much in terms of strategic balance and military capability

  • March 6, 2019
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Podvig: I don’t think this system [Russia’s Avangard] brings any new capability that the existing weapons like ICBMs don’t have

  • January 17, 2019
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Podvig: It’s possible there was a deliberate action by each side but it’s also possible neither side had a plan

  • November 27, 2018
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  • October 22, 2018
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Podvig: Russian efforts to develop hypersonic glide vehicles are explicitly aimed at evading U.S. missile defense systems

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Podvig: My understanding of Russia’s Status-6 “nuclear torpedo”: it’s till kind of a paper project

  • April 27, 2018
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