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In Russia, it was pretty clear-cut, because all the relevant officers were Russians, so Moskva could just order all the nuclear ships to re-base to St. Petersburg, and all the land-based warheads to be put on trains and shipped to Moskva. But the collapse of the Soviet Union was the collapse of a colonial empire. What you're talking about here is the equivalent of Kola and St. Petersburg striking out for independence.
I find the notion of a disintegrating country with several thousand megaton at its disposal less than perfectly reassuring...
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Some kind of treaty to have a reduction in the total stockpile and to have inspectors from outside in place would be handy. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
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