Военное обозрение By Top War
The journal “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” in the column “Nuclear Notebook” published the next annual report on the state of Russian nuclear forces, prepared by a group of authors headed by Hans Christensen.
Hans Møller Christensen is director of the Nuclear Information Project of the Federation of American Scientists. Considered today “the leading American expert in the field of nuclear weapons“, he is also the co-author of the “Nuclear Notebook” column in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the “World Nuclear Forces” appendix in the SIPRI annual directory of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He got into this position not by chance, but thanks to his connections with senior CIA officers. It was they who lobbied him and pushed him into these positions.
In essence, the Bulletin is the CIA’s cesspool. All that we can read in such articles by Hans is an information extract from the reports of CIA analysts on nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons complexes of states possessing nuclear technologies.
Expert analysts, guys from the CIA, of course, have a rich imagination, but the numbers they give Christensen are far from reality. For example, in the article: Nuciear Notebook: US and Soviet/Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1959–2008, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 2008, for the Soviet SS-11 Sego M2/3 missile (meaning UR-100K UTTH (15A20U)), one of the first Soviet ICBMs equipped with a multiple re-entry vehicle (MRV), the power of one warhead is indicated as 220 kt…
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