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+====Russia suspended plutonium deal with the US. Risk of strategic imbalance causes Russian backlash.==== |
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+BBC 10/3/2016, ("Russia Suspends Weapons-Grade Plutonium Deal With US", http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37539616) |
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+In a decree, President Vladimir Putin accused the US of creating "a threat |
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+and its Gulf Arab allies. Russia is currently modernising its nuclear arsenal. |
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+====Russia-Iran alliance key to challenge the US.==== |
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+Kam and Magen 9/10/2016 (Jerusalem Post, "Russia's and Iran's Turning Point: a Strategic Alliance", http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Russia-and-Irans-turning-point-467206" |
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+While Iran has since said that use of the air base was "over for |
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+AND |
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+it would happen, describing the move as "unfortunate though not surprising." |
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+====AND, Russian propaganda ensures war. Nuclear Doctrine allows first use.==== |
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+Cambridge 10/3/2016, (The Sun, "Russia tell its citizens the West is hell-bent on nuclear war as tensions with US over Syria escalate", https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1901325/russia-tell-its-citizens-the-west-is-hell-bent-on-nuclear-war-as-tensions-with-us-over-syria-escalate/) |
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+As international tension builds following attacks in Syria, Russian state officials are preparing terrified |
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+AND |
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+. Satellite images reveal the location of the huge centre near Mount Yamantau. |
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+====AND, US Russia War causes extinction==== |
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+Starr 10/14/2015, (director of the University of Missouri's Clinical Laboratory Science Program, Federation of American Scientist "Nuclear War, Nuclear Winter, and Human Extinction", https://fas.org/pir-pubs/nuclear-war-nuclear-winter-and-human-extinction/) |
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+While it is impossible to precisely predict all the human impacts that would result from |
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+AND |
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+silent about the ultimate threat that nuclear war poses to the human species. |