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…

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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…

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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…

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The MIT Levitated Dipole Experiment reactor, housed inside a 16-foot-diameter steel structure. Photo: MIT.

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…

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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, 20th Dec 2011 Former ASP Policy Analyst Eric Auner is a featured author. In the two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union and the…

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The Cold War Is Long Gone, but the Nuclear Threat Is Still Here By Eric Auner / American Security Project / The Atlantic In the two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the nuclear challenges facing the United States have changed radically. American nuclear strategy has not….

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