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Podvig: Rogozin confirmed that missiles (with nuclear warheads) were on the Russian submarine that caught fire in 2011

(Popular Mechanics) Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has admitted that a December 2011 incident involving a nuclear missile submarine almost became one of the worst nuclear weapons disasters ever recorded.…

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Podvig: Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review got the basic Russian strategy wrong

(Defense News) When it comes to Russia, the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) pulls no punches. Moscow’s military, specifically its modernized nuclear forces, are featured significantly throughout the report.…

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The INF Treaty culprit identified. Now what?

(Russian Forces blog) The word is that U.S. administration has finally identified the cruise missile that it suspects to violate the INF Treaty. In his remarks at the Wilson Center, Christopher…

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Production of new highly enriched uranium in Russia for the FRM-II in Germany

(IPFM blog) (Co-authored with A. Glaser) The Forschungsreaktor München II (FRM-II) has been using Russian-origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) for many years. It has now become clear that since 2012 Russia…

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Podvig linked mysterious Russian “forest flash” in 2016 to test of Yars-M ICBM

(Barents Observer) Locals in the village of Ust-Pocha in the Pinega district (Arkhangelsk Oblast) were all shocked by two huge explosions on August 25th last year. The powerful blasts could be heard from…

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Podvig: Sending actual rocket engines to North Korea would be a very difficult thing to pull off, whether in Russia or Ukraine

(SN) In the days that followed Monday’s report in The New York Times that North Korea may have illicitly procured advanced Soviet-era rocket engines from Ukraine, the response out of the post-Soviet nation…

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Podvig

Podvig: Rogozin confirmed that missiles (with nuclear warheads) were on the Russian submarine that caught fire in 2011

Podvig: Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review got the basic Russian strategy wrong

The INF Treaty culprit identified. Now what?

Production of new highly enriched uranium in Russia for the FRM-II in Germany

Podvig linked mysterious Russian “forest flash” in 2016 to test of Yars-M ICBM

Podvig: Sending actual rocket engines to North Korea would be a very difficult thing to pull off, whether in Russia or Ukraine

Podvig: Russia’s early warning radars are reasonably adequate for the job (threat identification)

Is it too late to have an informed discussion about the INF treaty?

Q & A with Podvig on nuclear weapons and non-proliferation

Pavel Podvig “literally wrote the book on Russia’s nuclear program”