Russia's Nuclear Shield
Moscow ARMEYSKIY SBORNIK, Dec 95 No 12,
(Signed to press 25 Nov 95) pp 7-11
by Colonel General Igor Sergeyev, CINC Strategic Missile Troops
In the past training year forces in the Strategic Missile Troops were upgraded by introducing missile regiments armed with the Topol missile complex to the order of battle and placing them on alert duty. Work continued on creating the modernized Topol-M missile complex.
Today the Strategic Missile Troops [SMT] are the most powerful and most combat-effective branch of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, the main component of strategic nuclear forces, and a real guarantor of national security. SMT nuclear missile weapons give fullest consideration to Russia's geostrategic position and the directions and scale of threats, they are distinguished by global reach and enormous destructive power, and they objectively equalize the correlation of economic, technical, demographic and other parameters of state strength that do not favor Russia.
http://www.fas.org/news/russia/1995/druma076_s96001.htm May 10, 2001
By Valentin Tikhonov *
MOSCOW -- Since the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly a decade ago, the West has been concerned about the fate of Russia's vast stockpile of nuclear weapons, materials and expertise.
http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/syndicate/Tikho051001.html Russia's Nuclear and Missile Technology Assistance to Iran
By Michael Jasinski
Russian assistance for the Iranian nuclear program has long been an irritant in the U.S.-Russian relations. The revelations concerning Iran's hitherto unknown uranium enrichment efforts, which propelled Iran's nuclear ambitions to the center of the world's attention, added a new dimension to the controversy. In a report released on June 18, 2003, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) criticized Iran for failing to report a number of nuclear activities. Nevertheless, the IAEA did not impose sanctions on Iran, though it did enjoin it to sign an additional protocol pursuant to its nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) obligations, which would enable the IAEA to inspect any suspected nuclear site in Iran, rather than just declared nuclear sites. These developments have signaled a new phase in the long U.S.-Russian dispute over Russia's nuclear projects in Iran.
http://cns.miis.edu/research/iran/rusnuc.htm India and Pakistan: Nuclear Capabilities
India and Pakistan are rivals and have maintained hostile relations since they gained independence from the British in 1948. Three times these two nations have gone to war, twice over disputes about Kashmir. The two have been involved in a conventional arms race since the beginning, allocating huge percentages of their budgets to defense.
While war has always been imminent between these two countries, the threat to the entire region has never been as great as it is now. The threat of a conventional war is always cause for political tension in any region and it is no secret that India and Pakistan have amassed huge stockpiles of conventional arsenal.
But as of May 1998, it is clear that the threat is much greater to the region should India and Pakistan embark on another war. It is evident these two rival nations are now also capable of producing and using nuclear weapons.
http://www.pakalert.net/articles/nuke_cap.aspGood info there Just Piper.
Brings up yet another question.
It is often put forward, primarily by rank and file Leftists, but... in the event of a nuclear strike against the USA by some terrorist organization who does the US respond in kind against?
Answer: should such an attack occur we will know where the plutonium for the device originated. That's who we will hold responsible.
Is this the reason as an aside to and a part of Russian domestic political concerns for the impending Russian live-fire nuclear exercise? Are they telling us: "America, when you loose one of your cities to a device of our manufacture, do not retaliate against the Russian Federation because we will respond against you.
How do you show solidarity or an alliance with another country in a war against terrorism... by running total global nuclear warfare exercises against them??? I don't see the Ruskies targeting the DPRK or the Chicoms. I don't see jihadi terrorists threats against the other nations in the TransAsian Axis of Evil. I see the TransAsian Axis member nation Iran harboring people like Ayman al-Zawahiri and OBL until recently.
I also see a bogus operation last year at a Moscow theater where Russian SOF/OMON forces ensured there were no survivors. They killed 'em all, "terrorists" and civilian hostages alike with Chemical weapons. They also shot them all point blank in the head just to make sure. ((((Right, a convoy of heavily armed Chechens drives unimpeded through the streets of Moscow? ROTFL, where is that turnip truck I fell off of???)))
They have their alibi, or so they think.
I ain't buying it, but you and a few others here already know that. :)