The global nuclear renaissance is back on the agenda. For all the repercussions of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, nuclear energy is gaining momentum and winning new regional markets. One of these emerging new markets is the Middle East, where an increasing number of countries are...
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WMD Terrorism Originated in North Caucasus: Again on the Agenda?
Recently it has become known that two prime suspects in committing the Boston Marathon bombings are two brother who had been identified as ethnic Chechens. On April 22, 2013 New York Times published an article[i] which noted t...
Various ideas for establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East were first voiced in the early 1960s. Nevertheless, negotiations on establishing a WMD-free zone in the region remain very far from conclusion. The establishment of a WMD-free zone in the Middle East was part of the 1995 N...
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PIR Center President Vladimir Orlov took part in expert descussions among representatives of Russia, PRC, India and Brazil when the very cocept of the...
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The book “The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy” by David Hoffman is a true documentary thriller focusing on the most difficult period of the 20th century. The international situation at that time is described as teetering on the brink of a nuclear world ...
In his monograph “Post-Imperium: a Eurasian Story”, a reputable Russian analyst and Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center Dmitry Trenin argues that the Soviet Union collapsed largely because Russia itself had grown tired of its imperial status and lost its imperial momentum. The book goes beyond fo...
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The article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which contains H.Kristensen's and R.Norris's estimates on Russian nuclear forces as of May 2013.
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WMD Terrorism Originated in North Caucasus: Again on the Agenda?
Recently it has become known that two prime suspects in committing the Boston Marathon bombings are two brother who had been identified as ethnic Chechens. On April 22, 2013 New York Times published an article[i] which noted t...
Presentation of PIR Center president Vladimir Orlov covers different aspects of problem of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The author analyzises whether terrorists can get access to nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction and to materials to produce them. A...
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Today effective cyber defenses assume higher levels of trust for automated threat sharing, but increased threat sharing also increases one`s vulnerability to new kinds of targeted threats from those with who have learned about your weaknesses. We have moved from a simple world where a threat could b...
Mr. Chairman,
Russia considers strengthening of the NPT and of the nuclear non-proliferation regime as a whole as one of the most important tasks and an absolute foreign policy priority. Therefore, we attach particular importance to attaining the highest possible effectiveness of the NPT review proc...