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[…] by rockets fired – NATO alleges – from inside Russia into Eastern Ukraine.2 3 Yet neither NATO nor US intelligence has released any images of the anti-aircraft missile system – what, a hundred? two 22 23 hundred? times as big as one of those scorch marks – which it is claimed was used to […]

From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

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[PDF file]: From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996 Nigel Norman Kim Besly was a peace campaigner and a regular visitor to the women’s camp at Greenham Common in the 1980’s.1 She did not match the stereotype of the ‘Greenham woman’. She was in her late fifties when she went to Greenham and had little involvement in politics […]

Miscellaneous reviews

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[PDF file]: […] account of the Soviet-American contest (Britain entered the race but was swamped by the other two), first to acquire German rocket scientists and then to develop a missile, contains one chapter on a bit of dodgy business by an American on the committee deciding which of the rival bids should make the American missile, […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their summary of what the documents tell us. But the declassified Soviet documents make some important corrections […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

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[PDF file]: […] Benjamin Netanyahu to show how seriously the Israelis took the threat posed by the Report: ‘there are three primary threats facing us today: the nuclear threat, the missile threat and what I call the Goldstone threat’. Not only did Israel condemn the Report as, among other things, part of an anti-Semitic plot – comparing […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] weapons sales for (mostly American) weapons corporations. Reuters reported recently that NATO member Poland was about to buy the Patriot missiles: ‘Poland strike deals for US Patriot missile systems that could be worth up to $8 billion’ was the subheading to the story.39 To sell weapons, ‘threats’ need to be created and thus the […]

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[…] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their summary of what the documents tell us. But the declassified Soviet documents make some important corrections […]

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[…] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their or 75 The View From No. 11 (London: Corgi, 1993) p. 185 76 28 summary of […]

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[…] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their summary of what the documents tell us. But the declassified Soviet documents make some important corrections […]

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