Fiona Hill, a British-born Russia expert and former White House intelligence adviser, said Putin s nuclear blackmail was likely to increase the international demand for nuclear arms.
Putin has launched a major salvage operation to the wreck of the downed Black Sea Fleet flagship to secure military secrets including coding devices and unexploded missiles, experts have claimed.
The young naval sailors, many of whom are 19-years-old, are missing and presumed dead after being on board the stricken Moskva flagship when it was hit by two Ukrainian missiles.
Situated somewhere on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia, sit the radioactive ruins and secret cities leftover from the Cold War. These restricted military sites, unrecognized on the map until long after the Cold War ended, were reserved purely for the pursuits of science and war. Weapon testing and undercover scientific studies took place here as the Russians vied to compete with the kind of bombs America was dropping on Japan at the time. As soon as word of these newly-mapped locations reached the naturally inquisitive London-based photographer Nadav Kander, he immediately set out to investigate, compelled by the secrets of the past and the aesthetics of destruction he so loves.