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...summer's most exciting day was August 19. While the rest of the world watched the unfolding events in Moscow (if they were lucky, they might have seen a leading Kennedy School analyst guarantee that Gorbachev would never return to power), Hurricane Bob ripped through New England. It was a perfect storm: plenty of expensive boats crushed in the water, plenty of idiotic TV reporters blowing in the wind, nobody killed or seriously injured...
Fischer noted that it has become more difficult for the West to give general monetary aid to the Soviet Union because it is not even clear whether the aid would go to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's federal government or Boris Yeltsin's Russian Republic...
...summer's most exciting day was August 19. While the rest of the world watched the unfolding events in Moscow (if they were lucky, they might have seen a leading Kennedy School analyst guarantee that Gorbachev would never return to power), Hurricane Bob ripped through New England. It was a perfect storm: plenty of expensive boats crushed in the water, plenty of idiotic TV reporters blowing in the wind, nobody killed or seriously injured...
...hard-liners' coup is history, but one ominous fact remains: the Soviet nuclear arsenal contains some 27,000 warheads scattered through several republics. Who will now control them? During the three days of Gorbachev's confinement, his so-called football -- the satchel containing launch- authorization codes -- was in the hands of the junta, raising concerns that its leaders might, in desperation, do something rash. And now, with at least the partial breakup of the U.S.S.R. a certainty, fears are growing that some of the seceding republics may insist that the weapons remain on their soil, in effect creating...
...four, Russia holds 80% or more of the strategic nukes. So far, the actions of Russian President Boris Yeltsin concerning the weapons have been reassuring. He insisted late last week that "any division of strategic weapons among the republics is unequivocally ruled out." Yeltsin also said he and Gorbachev will convene a meeting of national security officials, including those from the republics, to discuss control of Soviet nuclear weapons. Yeltsin favors sharing control between the central government and the republics -- a policy that would make the chances of an ill-advised nuclear attack even less likely than they were before...