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Moscow arms against nuclear attack
RT.com ^ | 7/12/2010 | RT.com

Posted on 07/15/2010 7:02:19 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld

Nearly 5,000 new emergency bomb shelters will be built in Moscow by 2012 to save people in case of potential attacks.

In the last 20 years, the area of air-raid defense has been developed little, and the existing shelters have become outdated. Moreover, they are located mostly in the city center, which makes densely populated Moscow outskirts especially vulnerable in the event of a nuclear attack In order to resolve the issue, the city has given architects a task to construct a typical model of an easy-to-build shelter that will be located all over the city 10 to 15 meters underneath apartment blocks, shopping centers, sport complexes and parks, as in case of attack people will need to reach the shelters within a minute.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bombshelter; civildefense; moscow; nuclearattack; nuclearwar; russia
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To: Smith Winston

All you have given me was export numbers with other countries.


41 posted on 07/17/2010 11:32:42 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: Smith Winston

At this point its a dead subject. I have moved on to other subjects


42 posted on 07/17/2010 11:33:26 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove

“All you have given me was export numbers with other countries.”

exactly.
since you questioned the accuracy of the estimation of russian export posted in the cia wolrd fact book, I’ve provided you with some additional sources


43 posted on 07/17/2010 11:59:16 PM PDT by Smith Winston
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