mick silver
10th November 2015, 08:21 AM
Russian calls for Cold War civil defense training to be revivedhttp://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/d/0c/d0c3eb8ca18907492a4b337b5cec5193.jpeg (http://www.reuters.com/) By Denis Dyomkin October 30, 2015 2:47 PM
http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/bofc0KhPjKM8OiaVwd9klA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9MjIxO3E9NzU7dz 0zMDA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-10-30T184702Z_3_LYNXNPEB9T0ZY_RTROPTP_2_RUSSIA-POLITICS.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/russian-calls-cold-war-civil-defense-training-revived-174407035.html#) . View photo
Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin speaks at the State Duma, the lower house of the parliament, …
By Denis Dyomkin
Related Stories
Russian Military Spending Surges as Revived Civil Defense Training Called for, Says Physicians for Civil Defense (http://news.yahoo.com/russian-military-spending-surges-revived-civil-defense-training-160800186.html) PR Newswire
U.S. missile shield a threat to Russia's nuclear capability: Putin (http://news.yahoo.com/u-missile-shield-threat-russias-nuclear-capability-putin-170426505.html) Reuters
Russia: US may have delusion of winning war with Russia (http://news.yahoo.com/russia-us-may-delusion-winning-war-russia-135402919.html) Associated Press
Carter says Russia, China potentially threaten global order (http://news.yahoo.com/carter-says-russia-china-potentially-threaten-global-order-224730320.html) Associated Press
Incredible Military Style Flashlight Now Available (https://beap.gemini.yahoo.com/mbclk?bv=1.0.0&es=Fr1SAHEGIS9ZzSNpaigXsxETQbOiDy4D9hpD2aLQjy0BAu2 MEZEdYHI_7.Z5F.wts2iMazk.e9FV52OmpH6i0TxvI5OCzeEUj HZk4dlkSQJupPNe257h5Df3ej4UUuKsU9y4Yh8ufphaBOW5ZdK WGj5_7vI_UIedQHdnLovP6CMsINieIkJ5G3l1307P0qU7GhyyZ llYfaWQvDFqgKwjKYbBspTmUZRolEHx00eLZuI7c9Bxlk9GlCQ .BW0dA3HDg207vqRS8CpV7uQRZaZWt_f_9xI_39E_EUZV48fwk G4c2RPJfyjMUBDNzSra7dcOG4Jat_8.EqoQIMTOj.HlCgJXQiR 6VkLMCoDISmQQs9zo2Sbmg0v7OEPNIMAeUGd2qiCkOnMh95V16 fIQOMQP652a_D._G3pRiR_JSVsvmxTjreeDGO2Fkvzufg--%26lp=) G700 Flashlight (http://dailyinsight.com/g700/) Sponsored (https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN22774.html?impressions=true) (https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/relevantads.html)
NOVO OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's authorities should revive the old Cold War practice of training civilians on how to respond in the event of a large-scale nuclear attack, a senior government official said on Friday.
Speaking after a meeting of Russia's Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Rogozin, the deputy prime minister in charge the defense industry, said the United States was upsetting the nuclear balance by developing new weapons systems.
Russia had no choice but to react to the aggressive capabilities of the United States, he said.
"Measures for countering the aggressor could include those that concern Russia's strategic nuclear capability, that is reciprocal measures so that, God Forbid, no one gets a crazy idea in their head," Rogozin said.
There could be other measures "so that the population, if nonetheless they were subject to that kind of aggression, could avoid colossal losses. ... Civil defense should be recreated," he said.
During the Cold War, Soviet authorities built a system of bomb shelters in case of a nuclear attack, and school children were trained how to put on protective masks. Posters telling people how to respond hung in schools and workplaces.
Many Soviet citizens were skeptical that any of the precautions could save them if there was an attack, but the training, known as civil defense, was compulsory.
The practice was abandoned under the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who with U.S. leaders negotiated a program of nuclear arms cuts that eased tensions.
But under Putin, relations between Washington and Moscow have soured, with the two sides at loggerheads over the conflict in Ukraine, ways to end the crisis in Syria and human rights issues.
The Russian leader has spoken often of the United States' and its allies encroaching into eastern Europe and threatening Russia's national security.
At a forum in the southern Russian city of Sochi earlier this month, he said a missile shield planned by the U.S. military was a direct threat to Russia's nuclear capability.
(Writing by Lidia Kelly and Christian Lowe; editing by Richard Balmforth)
Politics & Government
Foreign Policy
President Vladimir Putin
Cold War
Russia
Dmitry Rogozin
nuclear attack
Click to view comments
View Comments (235)
http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/bofc0KhPjKM8OiaVwd9klA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9MjIxO3E9NzU7dz 0zMDA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-10-30T184702Z_3_LYNXNPEB9T0ZY_RTROPTP_2_RUSSIA-POLITICS.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/russian-calls-cold-war-civil-defense-training-revived-174407035.html#) . View photo
Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin speaks at the State Duma, the lower house of the parliament, …
By Denis Dyomkin
Related Stories
Russian Military Spending Surges as Revived Civil Defense Training Called for, Says Physicians for Civil Defense (http://news.yahoo.com/russian-military-spending-surges-revived-civil-defense-training-160800186.html) PR Newswire
U.S. missile shield a threat to Russia's nuclear capability: Putin (http://news.yahoo.com/u-missile-shield-threat-russias-nuclear-capability-putin-170426505.html) Reuters
Russia: US may have delusion of winning war with Russia (http://news.yahoo.com/russia-us-may-delusion-winning-war-russia-135402919.html) Associated Press
Carter says Russia, China potentially threaten global order (http://news.yahoo.com/carter-says-russia-china-potentially-threaten-global-order-224730320.html) Associated Press
Incredible Military Style Flashlight Now Available (https://beap.gemini.yahoo.com/mbclk?bv=1.0.0&es=Fr1SAHEGIS9ZzSNpaigXsxETQbOiDy4D9hpD2aLQjy0BAu2 MEZEdYHI_7.Z5F.wts2iMazk.e9FV52OmpH6i0TxvI5OCzeEUj HZk4dlkSQJupPNe257h5Df3ej4UUuKsU9y4Yh8ufphaBOW5ZdK WGj5_7vI_UIedQHdnLovP6CMsINieIkJ5G3l1307P0qU7GhyyZ llYfaWQvDFqgKwjKYbBspTmUZRolEHx00eLZuI7c9Bxlk9GlCQ .BW0dA3HDg207vqRS8CpV7uQRZaZWt_f_9xI_39E_EUZV48fwk G4c2RPJfyjMUBDNzSra7dcOG4Jat_8.EqoQIMTOj.HlCgJXQiR 6VkLMCoDISmQQs9zo2Sbmg0v7OEPNIMAeUGd2qiCkOnMh95V16 fIQOMQP652a_D._G3pRiR_JSVsvmxTjreeDGO2Fkvzufg--%26lp=) G700 Flashlight (http://dailyinsight.com/g700/) Sponsored (https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN22774.html?impressions=true) (https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/relevantads.html)
NOVO OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's authorities should revive the old Cold War practice of training civilians on how to respond in the event of a large-scale nuclear attack, a senior government official said on Friday.
Speaking after a meeting of Russia's Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Rogozin, the deputy prime minister in charge the defense industry, said the United States was upsetting the nuclear balance by developing new weapons systems.
Russia had no choice but to react to the aggressive capabilities of the United States, he said.
"Measures for countering the aggressor could include those that concern Russia's strategic nuclear capability, that is reciprocal measures so that, God Forbid, no one gets a crazy idea in their head," Rogozin said.
There could be other measures "so that the population, if nonetheless they were subject to that kind of aggression, could avoid colossal losses. ... Civil defense should be recreated," he said.
During the Cold War, Soviet authorities built a system of bomb shelters in case of a nuclear attack, and school children were trained how to put on protective masks. Posters telling people how to respond hung in schools and workplaces.
Many Soviet citizens were skeptical that any of the precautions could save them if there was an attack, but the training, known as civil defense, was compulsory.
The practice was abandoned under the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who with U.S. leaders negotiated a program of nuclear arms cuts that eased tensions.
But under Putin, relations between Washington and Moscow have soured, with the two sides at loggerheads over the conflict in Ukraine, ways to end the crisis in Syria and human rights issues.
The Russian leader has spoken often of the United States' and its allies encroaching into eastern Europe and threatening Russia's national security.
At a forum in the southern Russian city of Sochi earlier this month, he said a missile shield planned by the U.S. military was a direct threat to Russia's nuclear capability.
(Writing by Lidia Kelly and Christian Lowe; editing by Richard Balmforth)
Politics & Government
Foreign Policy
President Vladimir Putin
Cold War
Russia
Dmitry Rogozin
nuclear attack
Click to view comments
View Comments (235)