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The incident occurred at a time of severely strained relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. [1] Responding to the Soviet Union's deployment of fourteen SS-20/RSD-10 theatre nuclear missiles, the NATO Double-Track Decision was taken in December 1979 by the military commander of NATO to deploy 108 Pershing II nuclear missiles in Western Europe with the ability to hit targets ...
During the 1950s and 1960s Both the United States and the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons small enough to be portable in specially-designed backpacks. [1] [2] Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union have ever made public the existence or development of weapons small enough to fit into a normal-sized suitcase or briefcase. [3]
As early as 1910 in Russia, independent research was being conducted on radioactive elements by several Russian scientists. [6]: 44 [7]: 24–25 Despite the hardship faced by the Russian academy of sciences during the national revolution in 1917, followed by the violent civil war in 1922, Russian scientists had made remarkable efforts toward the advancement of physics research in the Soviet ...
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The Soviet Union's 1984 nuclear test series [1] was a group of 29 nuclear tests conducted in 1984. These tests [ note 1 ] followed the 1983 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1985 Soviet nuclear tests series.
The book is a fiction about the nuclear weapons of France; the book also contains about ten chapters on true historical incidents involving nuclear weapons and strategy (during the second half of the twentieth century). Nilsen, Thomas, Igor Kudrik and Alexandr Nikitin. Russian Northern Fleet: Sources of Radioactive Contamination [dead link ].
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when ...
Putin has said that Russia does not need to resort to the use of nuclear weapons in order to achieve victory in Ukraine. Russia is the world's largest nuclear power. Together, Russia and the U.S ...