Allied bid for Obama to remove US European nuclear stockpile

Posted by Matt in February 22nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Europe, Nuclear, Barack Obama, Bid, bombs, Cold-War, Era, European Nato, European Soil, NATO, Nato Allies, Nuclear Stockpile, Nuclear Weapons

European NATO allies are to urge President Barack Obama to remove all remaining US nuclear weapons from European soil, as domestic pressure grows to rid its soil of outdated Cold War-era aerial bombs.
Allied bid for Obama to remove US European nuclear stockpile

Medvedev signs Russia’s military doctrine – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in February 5th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, Cold-War, Conventional Military Forces, Dependence, Era, Magnitude, Medvedev, Military Doctrine, moscow, Nuclear Arsenals, Nuclear Attack, Nuclear Force, Russia, Shape, Signs

The document says Russia reserves the right to use nuclear force in response to a nuclear attack or one of equivalent magnitude.
Russia’s conventional military forces are in dilapidated shape, increasing Moscow’s dependence on its Cold War-era nuclear arsenals.
Medvedev signs Russia’s military doctrine – washingtonpost.com

The 1930s – An Era Strikingly Similar to Our Own

Posted by Matt in January 7th, 2010 | 2 comments

Published in History, 1930s, churchill, Clifford, Era, Europeans, Free Peoples, Germany In 1933, Gravity, Hitler And The Nazis, National Review Online, Nature, Paul Johnson, Politician, Recalls, Soldier, Winston Churchill

Paul Johnson’s Churchill recalls an era strikingly similar to our own.
Johnson notes that when Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, most Europeans failed to recognize either the nature or the gravity of the threat. Winston Churchill — retired soldier, popular writer, not very popular politician — was the exception. He [...]

Burj Dubai: The Tallest Building in the World, and Pinnacle of Vanity – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in January 5th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Dubai, Ambition, Blue Skies, Burj Dubai, BurjDubai, Era, Frank Lloyd Wright, Khalifa, Opening Ceremony, Pinnacle, Stephen Bayley, Sublime, Surfaces, Tallest Building In The World, Telegraph, Vanity, Vitreous

For all the ambition of its construction, Dubai’s new Khalifa Tower is a frightening, purposeless monument to the subprime era, says Stephen Bayley.
“Less is only more where more is no good.” I wonder how many guests squinting into the Gulf’s blue skies before the sublime, coruscating, vitreous surfaces of the blasphemously [...]

Russia’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’ Still Exists – ABC News

Posted by Matt in October 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Abc News, Cold-War, Doomsday Machine, Dr Strangelove, Era, Esque, Fantasy, Holocaust, Nuclear Holocaust, Russia, Science Fiction

It’s supposed to be the stuff of science fiction: A device that triggers a nuclear holocaust in the event of a U.S. strike against Russia.
But the “Dr. Strangelove”-esque technology isn’t just fantasy. The Cold War-era Soviet “doomsday machine” was — and might still be — very much a reality.

Russia’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’ Still Exists – [...]

Russia, Plagued by Heroin Use, to Press U.S. on Destroying Afghan Poppy Crops – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in September 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Afghan, Afghanistan, American Counterpart, Bush, Crops, Drug Enforcement, Era, Eradication, Heroin, Holbrooke, Ivanov, Nytimes, Obama, Opium Poppy, Poor Farmers, Poppy Cultivation, Richard C, Russia, Taliban, United States

During talks this week with his American counterpart, Russia’s top drug enforcement official, Viktor P. Ivanov, will press the United States to step up efforts to destroy Afghan poppy cultivation, which he said was feeding a devastating drug problem in Russia.
The request comes just as American policy makers have swung sharply away from Bush-era programs [...]

Decaying Soviet Infrastructure Shows Its Era – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in August 20th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Russia, Breach, Disaster, Economic Recovery, Electricity Prices, Era, Failure, Foreign Investors, Hydroelectric Dam, Hydroelectric Power, Infrastructure Problems, Nytimes, Risky Investment, Russia, Russians, Siberia, Soviet Infrastructure, Spike

A devastating breach in Russia’s largest hydroelectric dam reminded Russians and foreign investors alike this week of the dangers posed by this country’s largely Soviet-era infrastructure.
The failure of the towering Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, which accounts for 15 percent of Russia’s hydroelectric power and 2 percent of its overall power, highlighted what a risky investment Russia’s infrastructure [...]

A Retreat From Global Banking – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in July 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Financial, Blogged, Consensus, Era, Excesses, Finance, Financial Giants, Financial Globalization, Flock Browser, Global Banking, Global Recession, Nytimes, Revulsion

The era of financial globalization may be coming to an end.
Virtually universal revulsion at the errors and excesses of the financial giants, and the global recession that resulted, has not led to any real consensus what to do about it, at either national or international levels.
Instead, countries are looking out for themselves, or simply quarreling. [...]