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07.04.2009, 10:29
Twenty years ago on April 7, the Soviet nuclear submarine K-278 Komsomolets caught fire and sank in the Norwegian Sea.
29.08.2009, 09:32
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Sixty years ago, the USSR tested its first atomic bomb. Now the proving ground stands as a reminder of the ambitious project that turned Russia into a major nuclear force.
30.12.2009, 01:09
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The change Barack Obama proposed for the ABM systems in Europe is much more tailored for the Middle Eastern missile threat, says policy analyst Ivan Oelrich, the president of the American Federation of Scientists.
13.06.2009, 05:31
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The Russian military plans to introduce a up-to-date analogue of the most powerful ballistic missile of all time - the RS-20, or SS-18 Satan by NATO classification.
12.08.2010, 12:36
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US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has urged the Senate to ratify the new American-Russian nuclear arms reduction treaty, START. No access to monitor the Russian nuclear arsenal puts US security at risk, she said.
05.05.2009, 16:15
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Washington is prepared to cut strategic nuclear warheads and their means of delivery under the new strategic arms reduction treaty – but not the nuclear warheads kept in storage, a US State Department official says.
05.05.2010, 08:48
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A giant funnel is being built in the Gulf of Mexico to channel the oil spill from the seabed to surface. But since there is no guarantee it will work, Russian experts think Soviet history may offer a radical solution.
21.08.2010, 09:55
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The Russian-built nuclear power plant in Iran’s Bushehr is an economic project and has nothing to do with politics, analyst Sergey Pereslegin has told RT.
17.08.2010, 17:01
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Tehran will continue uranium enrichment because the country needs it for the 20 future power plants like Bushehr, the head of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Borouujerdi said.
26.03.2010, 15:02
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A new nuclear arms reduction treaty will be signed by the Russian and American presidents on April 8 in the Czech capital Prague, as agreed during a phone conversation between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama.
Published: 01 June, 2009, 20:40
On the last night of spring 2009, Russia stopped producing Plutonium-239, the fuel used in nuclear weapons. The only thing that can bring the plutonium reactors back to life is… cold weather.
