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Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all, posted 2009 by peter in history msm politics russia usa war
Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination." Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
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Kavkazcenter.com
www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/, posted 2009 by peter in media news politics propaganda religion russia terrorism war
The internet agency Kavkaz Centre provides reporting of events in the Islamic world, the Caucasus, and Russia. One of Kavkaz Centre's chief objectives is to report events in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria connected to the Russian military aggression against the CRI. Besides we also provide international news agencies with news-letters, background information and assistance in making independent journalistic work in Caucasus.
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20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Accidental Nuclear War
www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/accidents/20-mishaps-maybe-caused-nuclear-war.htm, posted 2008 by peter in history list politics toread war
The risks are illustrated by the following selection of mishap. If the people involved had exercised less caution, or if some unfortunate coincidental event had occurred, escalation to nuclear war can easily be imagined.
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Arctic SuperPowers to Meet in Greenland -Will Global Warming Trigger a WW111?
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/arctic-superpow.html, posted 2008 by peter in environment politics russia usa war
Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are at odds over 1.2 million square kilometers (460,000 square miles) of Arctic seabed which could possibly hold 25% of the world's oil and gas.
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