Updates on the efforts to rescue sailors from the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk.
Inability to save 118 sailors from the Kursk highlights multiple problems facing Russia’s nuclear fleet.
Chief of the General Staff Anatoliy Kvashnin proposals for a radical reduction of Russia’s land-based strategic missiles lose out to Putin’s preference for caution.
The sinking of the Komsomolets is only one in a series of accidents involving the Soviet fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and ships.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signs National Security Concept with new nuclear policy aspects.
Jonathan Tucker’s Forward to the report on the former Soviet biological weapons facilities in Kazakhstan.
Occasional Paper #1: Kazakhstani facilities involved in the research and development, production, and testing of biological weapons (BW) played a key role in the former Soviet BW program.
Russia’s concerns about the perceived trend toward the unrestricted use of force by the United States.
Russian remains firm on its position that the use of force in international relations requires the explicit endorsement of the Security Council, except in cases of self defense.
Many of the best-kept secrets of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs involve Baghdad’s clandestine foreign procurement efforts since the Gulf War.
