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Can the Energy Department store 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium for 10,000 years?   Robert Alvarez Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 8 Mar 21, ”………… The US-Russia plutonium disposal disagreement. The end of the Cold War led to deep cuts in the US and Russian nuclear arsenals, and in 1993 President Clinton issued a directive declaring that the United States is “committed to eliminating, where possible, the accumulation of stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium.” ...

Sandor Fabian (Ph. D.) is a NATO Special Operations Subject Matter Expert and Curriculum Developer at the NATO Special Operations School in Chievres, Belgium, and a Research Fellow at the School of Politics, Security and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida. Sandor`s research interests include nontraditional approaches to conflict, modern resistance, special operations, new concepts of warfare and American military aid. Sandor holds a Doctorate in Security Studies and a Gr...

While one looks with alarm at the massive Russian nuclear modernization effort now nearing completion, the disarmament lobby -- such as Ploughshares and Global Zero -- views such modernization as simply a reflection of how the American threat is perceived by the Russians. There is also little doubt that the Russian Federations priority investment in nuclear weapons was -- and remains -- aimed primarily to checkmate the United States conventional weapons superiority, and give Russia a free hand ...

Future plans for bad actors inside of al qaeda. weve only seen a few of these documents. what else is in them? >> well i think we need to find out whats in them and i think they should be available to public scrutiny, too, because they were the documents that were found, you know at an enemy site. theyre not u.s. classified documents, per se. similar to how the saddam documents were exploited and made available to people at the institute of defense analysis and elsewhere to exploit and develop b...

Kt ja, the man on top moved. the man on the bottom did not, seems to establish, vinnie politan, that the person on top of the fight, the person in control was george zimmerman, and that will mean a lot in terms of can feel defense analysis. your take? >> oh, absolutely. if george zimmerman is on top and you have a witness with saying he has the red and black jacket, its clear who is in control. how do you claim self-defense if youre on top of the person youre shooting. you have a gun, they dont ...