Posted on Oct 1, 2023
Russia Might Have Lost Over 100 Nuclear Weapons
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The end of the Cold War likely made many people feel a little safer as it seemed unlikely the world would face nuclear Armageddon, but there was an unforeseen problem: missing nuclear weapons.
Before its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union produced more than 27,000 nuclear weapons and enough weapons-grade uranium and plutonium to build three times more weapons.
Because of severe economic distress, widespread corruption, lax security, and dependency on the bureaucratic system, it has been feared that some nuclear weapons and or material may have been lost or stolen.
Before its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union produced more than 27,000 nuclear weapons and enough weapons-grade uranium and plutonium to build three times more weapons.
Because of severe economic distress, widespread corruption, lax security, and dependency on the bureaucratic system, it has been feared that some nuclear weapons and or material may have been lost or stolen.
Russia Might Have Lost Over 100 Nuclear Weapons
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"In the late 1990s, Alexander Lebed claimed that the Russian military lost track of upwards of 100 nuclear suitcase bombs, each of which was as powerful as a one kiloton warhead capable of killing as many as 100,000 people and could be detonated by a single person12. The Council on Foreign Relations warned that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported more than a hundred nuclear smuggling incidents since 1993, eighteen of which involved highly enriched uranium3."...
"In the late 1990s, Alexander Lebed claimed that the Russian military lost track of upwards of 100 nuclear suitcase bombs, each of which was as powerful as a one kiloton warhead capable of killing as many as 100,000 people and could be detonated by a single person12. The Council on Foreign Relations warned that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported more than a hundred nuclear smuggling incidents since 1993, eighteen of which involved highly enriched uranium3."...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Interesting article about the topic. Thanks for sharing it.
I felt less safe and was concerned to imagine that simply because the Berlin Wall came down, as much of a breakthrough as that was, that it was symbolically being used to state the Cold War had ended. It fell flat, imo,n just like "covid is now over" did - which only meant there was not as much obsessive fear mongering about it in the media.
Personally, I thought it suggested a new approach to the Cold War, and confidence from the communist bloc, no longer ONLY Russia, and also independent former USSR satellite nations, that chose the communist ideology and form of government, along with all the far left leaning nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. who altogether would be pursuing the Cold War at the next level . . . however that was going to play out . . .
And of course there was much concern at that time, as there still is, about Russia's"missing" nukes, like who had purchased them or had been gifted them from Russia.
I felt less safe and was concerned to imagine that simply because the Berlin Wall came down, as much of a breakthrough as that was, that it was symbolically being used to state the Cold War had ended. It fell flat, imo,n just like "covid is now over" did - which only meant there was not as much obsessive fear mongering about it in the media.
Personally, I thought it suggested a new approach to the Cold War, and confidence from the communist bloc, no longer ONLY Russia, and also independent former USSR satellite nations, that chose the communist ideology and form of government, along with all the far left leaning nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. who altogether would be pursuing the Cold War at the next level . . . however that was going to play out . . .
And of course there was much concern at that time, as there still is, about Russia's"missing" nukes, like who had purchased them or had been gifted them from Russia.
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I actually wrote a paper on this when I was in Staff College. Pretty scary.
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