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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m watching this now, and starting to have a panic attack about the amount of nuclear weapons in the world.[/quote]

Back in 1990, 1991 as the Soviet Union was collapsing, we were running every scenario possible on their nuke stockpile. We guessed 98% of them would be secured in the event of a complete collapse. That would leave over 1,000 nuclear weapons unaccounted for. It used to give me nightmares. (Meanwhile, Dick Cheney was all but cheerleading that the Soviet Union disintegrate into civil war and not giving two effs about the consequences. He made our lives very difficult.)

Through an amazing amount of work by both sides, and no doubt some sheer luck, every weapon the Soviets (and the eventual former republics) were willing to admit existed ended up accounted for. Still, there were some......incidents.......where nuclear materials were unexpectedly stumbled upon.

Cooperative Threat Reduction in the 1990s is a triumph, and a really unknown story.[/quote]

This makes me feel better. Thank you.

So, what about indian and Pakistan?[/quote]

I'm a Soviet/Former Soviet/Russian specialist, which is how I ended up working in CTR. I don't have any insight into India and Pakistan, unfortunately. (expect that the thought of those two countries having nukes is freaking terrifying)[/quote]

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