About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the Soviet nuclear program, to make some photocopies. On the ground floor of an ...
In 1989, the Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarine Komsomolets sank to the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, along with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear warheads onboard. Komsomolets was constructed ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Magdalena Stawkowski, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) About a year ...