By 2021 new nuclear missile systems, composed of new warheads and new delivery systems, will constitute 98 percent of Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missile forces. This modernization includes the new RS-24 Yars (which NATO calls the SS-27 Mod … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – December 8 – 13, 2014
Russia
Nuclear Threats on the Rise – Rethinking the Unthinkable
Today there are major imbalances between the new and expanding nuclear weapons research and production capacities of Russia and the declining capabilities of the United States. The end of the Cold War brought many changes including the unification … [Read more...] about Nuclear Threats on the Rise – Rethinking the Unthinkable
Nuclear Vigor: Russia, China and Iran
Left: Plutonium pit production estimates for 2014. Russia has the ability today to produce at least 1,000 plutonium pits per year for use in building their new nuclear weapons. The United States, in contrast, has only one plutonium pit facility—an … [Read more...] about Nuclear Vigor: Russia, China and Iran
The Muslim Brotherhood in Russia
Left: Lenin calling for hard work – Kazakh, Tashkent, 1933 (the Mardjani Foundation) "Russia appears to be taking serious moves to combat the 'radicalization' of Muslims within its border. Recent pro-Islamic reports are complaining that Russia … [Read more...] about The Muslim Brotherhood in Russia
Russia’s Renewed Nuclear Threat – Part I
The end of the Cold War brought many changes including the unification of Germany, the expansion of democracy into Eastern Europe, and the integration of Russia into the global economy. It also removed the previous five-decades-long worry about a … [Read more...] about Russia’s Renewed Nuclear Threat – Part I
The Growing Russian Menace*
It is not a return of the Cold War – but, in a sense, it may be even more dangerous. For more than four decades, the U.S. and its allies wrestled with a formidable enemy, one armed to the teeth, from nuclear weapons and delivery systems to the best … [Read more...] about The Growing Russian Menace*
Weekly Briefing, November 10-15, 2014
Left: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shakes hands with attendants of the First Latin American Muslim Religious Leaders Summit in Istanbul, where he announced that Muslims discovered the Americas before Columbus. Turkey Reaches Out to Latin … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing, November 10-15, 2014
Weekly Briefing, November 2-8, 2014
Transportation Terrorism – Part I - Rachel Ehrenfeld - The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood that the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing, November 2-8, 2014
Weekly Briefing, October 26 – November 1, 2014
Laser Communications - Rachel Ehrenfeld - Uninterrupted radio frequencies are necessary to guarantee wireless communications. The rapid growth of wireless communication and computing systems with a wide range of applications and services have crowded … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing, October 26 – November 1, 2014
Weekly Briefing, October 19-25, 2014
Islamist Terrorism in Canada - Rachel Ehrenfeld - The terror attacks in Montreal and Ottawa Canada should have not surprised anyone. The recent jihadist attacks attacks in Montreal and Ottawa came after years of repeated calls to fight the infidel by … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing, October 19-25, 2014