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		<title>Russian Chief of Staff: Risk of Nuclear War Increasing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addressing the Public House not long ago, Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov announced that probability of a war near the Russian borders, including a nuclear war, had greatly increased over the last several years. <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/russian-chief-of-staff-risk-of-nuclear-war-increasing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=942&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palm Trees Sprout in Moscow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moscow demonstrations protesting the recent elections didn’t portray Russia as heading toward another revolution, so Fox News substituted video footage of violent demonstrations in Athens, complete with scenes of streets on fire. <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/palm-trees-sprout-in-moscow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=938&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Threatens Putin</title>
		<link>http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/mccain-threatens-putin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Moscow News quotes Senator John McCain as warning Putin that he could meet Gaddafi’s fate. I was so shocked by such an incendiary remark from a former presidential candidate that I checked out the alleged threat on McCain’s Twitter &#8230; <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/mccain-threatens-putin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=933&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Spymaster on Iranian Nuclear Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview, retired four-star admiral and former head of the super-secret NSA, Adm. Bobby Inman, portrays a very different Iranian threat from the usual – and a very different approach for dealing with Iran successfully.  <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/ex-spymaster-on-iranian-nuclear-threat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=928&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Military Chief Sees Increasing Risk of Nuclear War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's chief military officer says the nation is facing an increased threat of being drawn into conflicts at its borders that may grow into an all-out nuclear war. Gen. Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff, pointed at NATO's expansion eastward and said Thursday that the risks for Russia to be pulled into local conflicts have "risen sharply." He added, according to Russian news agencies wires, that "under certain conditions local and regional conflicts may develop into a full-scale war involving nuclear weapons." <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/russian-military-chief-sees-increasing-risk-of-nuclear-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=918&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Russia to Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Speaker John Boehner is second in line for the presidency, after Vice President Biden. That highlights the danger of his recent speech that come dangerously close to challenging Russia to a fight. Boehner’s web site prefaces the speech by noting “In remarks at the Heritage Foundation today, Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) discussed the need to reassert American exceptionalism in the U.S.-Russia relationship.” Here are the key parts of what he had to say: <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/challenging-russia-to-fight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=909&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nuclear Cookie Jar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June 2010, I had a post entitled "Is Our Hand in the Nuclear Cookie Jar?" which made an analogy between our missile defense plans and a toddler having her hand in the cookie jar while asserting that she wasn't taking a cookie. Unfortunately, we continue to risk creating a Russian-American crisis by maintaining that Russia has nothing to fear from our plans, but refusing to put that in writing and taking other actions that make it look like our hand is in the nuclear cookie jar.  <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-nuclear-cookie-jar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=898&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heading for Another Cuban Missile Crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last post warned that our current approach to missile defense has the potential to ignite a new Cuban crisis, comparable to that of 1962, something I also had warned of in a post back in 2008. So imagine my surprise and concern when, soon after completing that post, I came acros an article in RT (formerly Russia Today) entitled US and Russia: heading for another 'Cuban missile crisis?' <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/heading-for-another-cuban-missile-crisis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=882&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian-American Relations: Reset or Reload?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's issue of the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that our Ambassador-designate to Russia, Michael McFaul, was “one of the authors of the American-Russian reload.” I was familiar with President Obama’s efforts to reset Russian-American relations, so this seemed like an ominous new direction, especially for our ambassador to Russia. Fortunately, web searching showed that reload was used in some Russian accounts to mean reset, and was corrected in the version of the Kommersant article linked to above. But, for reasons given below, an important question still remains: “Are we resetting or reloading our relationship with Russia?” <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/russian-american-relations-reset-or-reload/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=872&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please Help!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Society has repeatedly rejected even minor changes in our nuclear weapons posture as too risky, even though the baseline risk of our current strategy is unknown. To plug that gaping hole in our national security, please sign our petition asking Congress &#8230; <a href="http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/please-help/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13305877&amp;post=861&amp;subd=nuclearrisk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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