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The Atlantic – Nick Lockwood: How the Soviet Union Transformed Terrorism
posted by Paul Hamill on December 23, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Lockwood: In the 1960s and 70s, the Soviet Union sponsored waves of political violence against the West….the Soviets wanted to use these left-wing terror groups to destabilize Italy and Germany to break up NATO. State-sponsored terrorism was a deeply Soviet phenomenon, but its practice did not stop when the Soviet Union ended.
ASP – What we are reading
posted by Paul Hamill on December 22, 2011 at 2:48 pm
22 Dec 2011 Soviet Nationalism Is Still Driving Russian Politics Randall Law/ American Security Project / The Atlantic Don’t let the recent public protests against Russian prime minister and presumptive president Vladimir Putin fool you: authoritarianism remains firmly entrenched in Russia 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and there’s more to it…
The Atlantic – Randall Law: Soviet Nationalism Is Still Driving Russian Politics
posted by Paul Hamill on December 22, 2011 at 2:20 pm
This post is part of a 12-part series exploring how the U.S.-Russia relationship has shaped the world since the December 1991 end of the Soviet Union. Read the full series here. Source: The Atlantic, 22st Dec 2011 ASP Adjunct Fellow Randall Law is a featured author. Don’t let the recent public protests against Russian prime minister and…
The Atlantic – John Adams: A Changing NATO for a Changing World
posted by Paul Hamill on December 21, 2011 at 2:51 pm
This post is part of a 12-part series exploring how the U.S.-Russia relationship has shaped the world since the December 1991 end of the Soviet Union. Read the full series here. Source: The Atlantic, 21st Dec 2011 Consensus for American Security member Brig Gen John Adams is a featured author. Twenty years after the fall of the…
ASP – What we are reading
posted by Paul Hamill on December 21, 2011 at 2:33 pm
21 Dec 2011 A Changing NATO for a Changing World John Adams / American Security Project / The Atlantic Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO can point with pride to its history. But can it point with confidence to its future? NATO’s viability in the 21st century depends on applying the…
Fusing Fusion Concepts: Plasma-Jet driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF)
posted by Veronique Lee on December 20, 2011 at 4:55 pm
The fusion projects we often hear about fall into one of two camps: Magnetic Confinement Fusion (MCF) or Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). Of course, each project has its own spin on fusion. For example, MIT’s Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) follows the tokamak model commonly used in MCF, but instead of generating the magnetic field through…
