Returning to nuclear non-proliferation is a not huge mistake. The Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to take it's natural course back into eliminating nuclear weapons forever and only allowing conventional weapons for any disagreements countries may have.
JUST STOP!
There is one thing everyone knows about nuclear weapons and economics is that when a country embarks on a nuclear weapon strategy it takes wealth from the domestic economy of that country. Russia is existing under sanctions that have impacted it's economy. Putin in retaliation and desperation for his mistaken politics to return the USSR's glory, is attempting to end the USA through intervening in its politics and elections. He got what he wanted with Trump and now the reality of his mistake has come to roost.
Trump eliminated nuclear treaties and Putin out of sheer fear of the power of the USA and the potential for it's weapons has returned to testing supposedly more sophisticate nuclear weapons that act as a "smart bomb." He lost his scientists because of these tests. It is anyone's guess to what the explosion has done to Europe and the Arctic. Europe received radiation from Chernobyl. Depending on the way the winds were blowing, Europe may be getting a dose of this disaster as well. The problem with the wind these days is that it is dominated by vortexes. So, the possibility of a vortex picking up the radiation and incorporating it into it's air mass is very probable. NASA is going to have to check the winds that day and now carry out some imaging to understand where the radiation went.
The region is very near Europe. It is also near Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The nuclear treaties that have been in effect for decades worked. They moved countries away from the defense of nuclear capacity. It moved countries monies into use for economic growth. Those treaties allowed Russia into the G8. Those treaties no matter how obsolete they became provided a strong path to peace.
The problem was Putin''s politics is that he promised too much and was in the process of creating an economic alliance. He was going to prove to the post-Soviet states they made a huge mistake in leaving when the USSR imploded. In promising all that ideology to the Russian people, Putin overreacted to the removal of Yanukovych. He didn't want to appear as a weak president of Russia, so he launched an invasion into Crimea. Crimea wasn't enough for his ideology to maintain it's integrity so he moved into eastern Ukraine.
The treaty involving Ukraine was perfect. He should have believed in it's strength rather than becoming scared of an outcome he did not control. Russia would have been fine and the people of Ukraine would be playing their politics and attempting to engage an economy that had strong relations with Europe as well as Russia.
Putin can't handle the idea his ideology is falling apart and the world is still the same. He relates to strength through weapons. He is a nuclear weapon brinkman. That is how he finds his balance with Russia's place in the world. He believes he can have it all back. He placed Russia on a path to win it's Soviet country back again, including nuclear war that he believes he could contain. He is no different than any other 3rd world leader that has nuclear weapons with the delusion of a preventive measure.
Vladimir Putin needs to be a very brave Russian and realize the world recognizes the fact that Russian people deserve a Russian president. No one wants to change that. No one wants nor can afford a huge war to overtake Russia. Russia has a strong reason to be Russia and that is the global "balance of power."
Vladimir, stop. The world is going to spin tomorrow and Russia will always be Russia. Ukraine will always be Ukraine. The post-Soviet states will always be the same in culture and government as choices of the people. The handful of people that state they are Americans and want horrendous war are in the Executive Branch of the USA government and YOU PUT THEM THERE!
The Russian military and government cannot treat this accident as a mystery. The world can help and quite frankly it has a right to know what is affecting their air and now that it is in the ocean at the top of the world, the currents will bring the contamination to visit all shores of that ocean. Unfortunately, this is summer in the northern hemisphere and the Arctic is missing a lot of ice and the ability to freeze that contamination in blocks of ice that could be contained in some ways is no longer possible.
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Russia needs to turn to the world and demand peace to return prosperity to the country, acceptance of the Russia people into the greater global community and end the self-imposed isolation that was due to Putin's plans of the propagation of war.
This is a global calamity and it has to be treated that way.
By Tom McKay
Russian nuclear agency Rosatom (click here) admitted late on Friday that a suspicious cloud of radiation that spread over the Arkhangelsk region was caused by an explosion at one of its facilities, the Guardian reported, involving experiments involving an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine.”
Rosatom said that the accident, which temporarily sent radiation spiking up to 20 times background radiation levels in the city of Severodvinsk, resulted in five deaths and three injuries in the form of burns. According to the Guardian, the Rosatom statement may indicate that several employees previously named as injured in a ministry of defense statement (which put the toll at two dead, six injured) have died, and the agency did not elaborate on where the workers are being treated.
According to the New York Times, an additional two military personnel are believed dead.
“A bright memory of our comrades will forever live in our hearts,” Rosatom wrote in the statement....
