Four years in the rabbit hole with millions of Russian military docs, and I finally feel comfortable writing this (very uncomfortable) story.
Russia appears to have upgraded and re-activated the fabled Dead Hand that ensures global nuclear retaliation if Russia is attacked.
Stort tillykke til journalisterne Mathias Glistrup og Thomas Gösta Svensson fra Danwatch, der er vindere af FUJ’s Metodepris 2025 for projektet “Putins Atomplaner”.
Også stort tillykke til de øvrige nominerede fra TV2 Kosmopol og Ingeniøren.
The @DanWatchDK story about blueprints of Russian missile bases continues. Equipment came from major European companies from Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland. After annexation of Crimea, some after full-scale invasion in 2022. https://t.co/nzeKSQ8ei0
Valves, pumps and insulation. Products from the three renowned Danish companies Danfoss, Grundfos and Rockwool have been used extensively in the modernization of two of Russia’s most secretive and heavily guarded nuclear weapons bases: https://t.co/zSG7Kl5Y88
Das Material eines deutschen Milliardenkonzerns ist in Russland gefragt – auch für die Renovierung von Nuklearwaffenstützpunkten. Die entscheidenden Fragen und Antworten zur SPIEGEL-Recherche.https://t.co/5xakiNIsuW
1/6 Major Russian security breach: We've uncovered hundreds of detailed blueprints of Russia's most sensitive nuclear weapons facilities - exposed online in a public database. Our investigation reveals the extensive scale of Putin's nuclear modernization program👇