Russian nuclear weapons, 2023

Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Reactors

This report addresses the tenuous link between nuclear power reactor development and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly with respect to possible terrorist exploitation. Arguments are presented that contradict the popular image of nuclear weaponry as a "basement project". 4 CONTENTS

Stewards and Custodians: Tomorrow’s Crisis for the Russian Nuclear Weapons Complex?

For years to come, the Russian nuclear weapons production complex will remain responsible for missions that are central to international security and nonproliferation, including: • dismantlement of retired nuclear weapons; • support to Russia’s operational nuclear warhead stockpile to assure its safety, security, and reliability; • safe and secure storage, management, and disposition of hundred...

Civilian Trust in the Military, Organizational Culture, and Tactical Nuclear Weapons Policy: Russian Strategic Ambiguity†

The nature of both strategic and tactical nuclear weapons and their role as instruments of deterrence require that certain details be revealed to potential adversaries and others shrouded in the greatest degree of secrecy possible. Russian tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) policy is at the very extreme of the ambiguity part of the spectrum, which has put into question whether Russia has a TNW poli...

Effects of nuclear weapons

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August, 1945. The energy yields were equivalent to 12 500 tonnes and 20 000 tonnes of high explosive. Yields from thermonuclear weapons (H-bombs) range up to several megatons (Mt). Between 1945 and the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, over 2000 nuclear tests were carried out by the USA, USSR, Britain, France and China, plus one by India. Mo...

The Effects of Nuclear Weapons