In February 2012, the procurement director, Mr. Sergei Shutov of Zio-Podolsk was arrested for buying low quality and cheap raw material, passing it off as more expensive grade and pocketing the difference. Another Russian court has convicted one Mr. Alexander Murach, Director of another notorious Russian company, Informtekh, for fraud and sentenced him to three years in prison for selling counterfeit measuring equipment for the Russian nuclear power plants' turbines.
Interview Sept 2012 (upl 28.01.2013) Reykjavik 1986 The Cold War Mindset The nuclear complex Proliferation through Atoms for peace, the US program for giving away enriched uranium to allies like Pakistan Maybe the time has come for unilateral US reductions ? (Reagan adviser Perrot?)
Time Feb 1, 2013: "Hizballah is not Israel’s only concern – or perhaps even the most worrying. Details of the Israeli strikes make clear the risk posed by fundamentalist militants sprinkled among the variegated rebel forces fighting to depose Assad. The jihadists are overwhelmingly home-grown Sunni militants but also include foreigners drawn to the fight from across the Muslim world. Loosely organized into several fighting groups, some fighters embrace the almost nihilist ideology associated with al-Qaeda." "One Western intelligence official told TIME the U.S. military was poised to carry out similar airstrikes around Aleppo if rebels threaten to take sites associated with weapons of mass destruction in that region."
18 May 2013, Jim Lobe "An Iran with nukes will still be a declining power." -- Alireza Nader of the Rand Corporation. the report identifies the Islamic Republic’s military doctrine as defensive in nature. This posture is presumably a result of the volatile and unstable region in which it exists and is exacerbated by its status as a Shi’a and Persian-majority nation in a Sunni and Arab-majority region. I ran is also scarred by its traumatic eight-year war with Iraq in which as many as one million Iranians lost their lives Related IPS Articles U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arsenals Cling to Bygone Era Nuclear Iran Can Be Contained and Deterred: Report More Diplomacy, Less Pressure Needed for Iran Settlement – Report I
Libé 9.7.2012 Par PASCAL BONIFACE Directeur de l’Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques et enseignant à l’Institut d’études européennes de l’université Paris-VIII En proposant que la France renonce à son arsenal nucléaire afin de contribuer à la réduction du déficit budgétaire, Michel Rocard a lancé un pavé dans la mare.
J. Back, D. Furniss, M. Hildebrandt, and A. Blandford. Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, Volume 5219, Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany, The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com. Paper presented at SAFECOMP 2008: the 27th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, 22-25 September 2008, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. http://www.safecomp2008.org/.(September 2008)