Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

[truAnatolian]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

lol.... then we would have a new country called California.

[gmd]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

I am pretty sure the US would not invade any nations that have nukes. Especially if that nation borders Iran and is on good terms with them. The US would have no way of preventing the Nukes from leaving the country before the invasion took place.

[SoyElTurco]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

useless. absolutely useless. nobody needs nuclear weapons. just fight the old fashioned way with the sword and shield. absolutely no progress has been made with modern weaponry. progress is an illusion of science.

[gmd]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

Armenia Joins World Nuclear Association
Monday, October 20, 2008 8:53 PM

(Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English)YEREVAN. Oct 20 (Interfax) - Armenia has become a member of the World Nuclear Association, Deputy Energy and Natural Resources Minister Areg Galstian told Interfax.
He said the accession agreement had been signed in Paris.

Armenia is the 25th member of the organization, which unites all the nuclear powers, the official said on Monday.

The World Nuclear Association aims to promote peaceful uses of atomic energy. It supervises nuclear generation, production, storing and transportation of nuclear fuel and storing and disposal of spent nuclear fuel.

(c) 2008 Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

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http://www.istockanalyst.com/article...d_2723036.html

[Vrtanes]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

useless. absolutely useless. nobody needs nuclear weapons. just fight the old fashioned way with the sword and shield. absolutely no progress has been made with modern weaponry. progress is an illusion of science.

for once i agree with the turk

[truAnatolian]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

just fight the old fashioned way with the sword and shield

Hmmm.... Well we tried that until some men on their eastern midget horses came with recurve bows and refused to get off and fight like men...

Sound familiar?

[Azad]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

Even if Armenia/Armenians had any nuclear weapons, it is not in our advantage to publicize it or mention it casually on a forum. If we do have any nuclear or "dirty bomb" made out of Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant materials it will be our last resort in defense. Last thing we want is a nuclear race in the region ... which is happening already cause of Iran.

Few years ago Armenia had a very advanced research going on laser weaponry that the US was very interested ... overnight the project either went underground or was halted.

[Azad]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

Look at us ... a small country of few millions, we are lined up next to the world powers.

"Military Grade Anti-Personnel Lasers
Protocol IV of the Vienna Convention, adopted in October 1995, bans the use of anti-personnel laser weapons designed to permanently blind combatants in conventional warfare. Prior to the ban, several nations, including the U.S., the UK, Russia, China and Armenia, had developed laser anti-personnel weapons of various intensity levels."

http://www.laserinstitute.org/news/releases/Lasers_Congress/index.php

[yerazhishda]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

That sounds like something out of a science fiction movie.

[Armenian]

Re: Does Armenia have Nuclear Weapons?

Look at us ... a small country of few millions, we are lined up next to the world powers.

We Armenians keep forgetting that the world famous Alikhanian brothers (Artem and Abraham) were one of the pioneers of nuclear physics and laser technology in the Soviet Union. Artem Alikhanian founded and directed the Physics Institute in Yerevan. Due to their vast research in Yerevan, the Soviet Union had the first operational laser gun, I believe in the late 12960s or the early 1970s. Russia 'had laser cannons before U.S.: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080520/107861494.html

100-th Anniversary Of ARTEM ALIKHANIAN 1908 - 2008

Artem Alikhanian, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, was born on June 24, 1908. In 1931 he has graduated from Leningrad State University (Physics). In 1930 he became a staff-member at Leningrad Physical and Technical Institute working on radioactivity and nuclei research together with his brother A. Alikhanov. For these investigations both brothers were awarded the USSR State Prize. In 1942 two brothers initiated a scientific mission on Mt.Aragats in order to search for the third (proton) component of cosmic rays. Together with T. Asatiani A. Alikhanian found so called narrow showers in cosmic rays, established the first evidence of the existence in cosmic rays of the particles with masses between that of muon and proton. In 1948 A. Alikhanov and A. Alikhanian were awarded the USSR State Prize for the investigation of cosmic rays. The foundation of cosmic ray station on Mt.Aragats at 3250 m above sea level was one of the steps aimed on the development of nuclear and particle physics in Armenia. This station remains the main national cosmic ray centre until now. In 1943 two brothers participated in the foundation of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, established in the frames of the Academy the Yerevan Physics Institute. A. Alikhanian became its Director for the next 30 years. In 1956 A. Alikhanian (together with A. Alikhanov and V. Hambartsumian) initiated the creation of the Yerevan Synchrotron with 6 GeV energy of electrons and headed the design and construction of this machine, that was accomplished in 1967. The results obtained later on at Yerevan synchrotron on meson photoproduction by unique beam of polarized gamma-quanta, investigations on transition and channeling radiations are well-known among the scientific community. A.Alikhanian paid much attention to the development of the new experimental methods. For the works on wide-gap track spark chambers in 1970 A.Alikhanian (together with the colleagues from Yerevan, Moscow and Tbilisi) was awarded the Lenin Prize. Later he initiated the works on x-ray transition radiation detectors, based on the theoretical predictions made at YerPhI and experiments carried out at Yerevan synchrotron. The detectors of such type were widely used in accelerator and cosmic ray experiments at many centres worldwide. A.Alikhanian supported also applied research using the beams from Yerevan synchrotron, mainly on solid state physics and biophysics. After all he was an outstanding personality with very many friends in the artistic world.

Source: http://www.yerphi.am/alikhanyan.htm

PS: One thing I must say here is that besides a natural talent for music, art and chess, Armenians in Armenia also have a great natural talent for physics. I don't know why this is but Armenia has had a surplus of brilliant physicists. Sadly, due to the economic collapse these men and women have been forced to apply their trades elsewhere. As a result, many have ended up in the West's financial sector as analysts. Many have found work applying their trade in Russia and Europe. Yet many still seem to be in Armenia...