Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?
by shadilay on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:36AM
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The US government spent a lot of money upgrading Russian nuclear security and paying personnel in the 90's so precisely this would not happen. Same with the rocket scientists.
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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?
by Ichthypresbyter on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:19AM
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I have heard that one of the recent projects to redefine the kilogram independently of an artefact was essentially a job creation scheme for unemployed Russian nuclear scientists to stop them being hired by people with more nefarious intentions.
Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?
by shadilay on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:42PM
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Source? I'd be somewhat surprised if these job creation projects are happening much anymore given that a lot of the 90's era scientists will have retired or emigrated by now. I think most emigrated.
Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?
by Ichthypresbyter on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:32AM
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It might have been a while ago- here [0] is a link to a press release from 2005 saying that the isotopic enrichment of silicon-28 for the Avogadro Project (to redefine the kilogram using a perfect sphere of isotopically pure single-crystal silicon-28) was done at two Russian institutions.
Here [1] is a 2004 press release from the International Science and Technology Center, whose first objective is to "Provide weapons scientists in the CIS the opportunity to redirect their talents to peaceful activities." Page 9 describes their involvement in the Avogadro Project.
Here [2] is the project description on the ISTC website.
[0]https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/presseaktuelles/journals-magazines...
[1]https://www.istc.int/upload/files/6yoyjz8txt44oc0g8cs8.pdf
[2]https://istc.ru/istc/sc.nsf/html/projects.htm?open&id=2630