#932 How many countries are nuclear powers?
How many countries are nuclear powers? There are 9 countries that have nuclear weapons. They are the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North…
How many countries are nuclear powers? There are 9 countries that have nuclear weapons. They are the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North…
What happened to the Aral Sea? The Soviet Union diverted the rivers that fed it in the 1960s and it has almost completely dried up. The Aral Sea was located…
Why did the USSR collapse? There are a myriad of reasons. Not one of them is exclusive and it could be said that were only one of these to have…
Watch on YouTube Are Inner and Outer Mongolia separate countries? Outer Mongolia is the country of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia is a part of China. Outer Mongolia is known as…
Do the gulags still exist? Technically no, but actually yes. The gulag is not actually a place. We use the expression gulag to refer to a Russian prison, but it…
Who was Molotov and why was the Molotov cocktail named after him? He was Vyacheslav Molotov, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Soviet Union A Molotov cocktail is usually a…
I learned this today. The Tunguska event was probably a meteor air burst that exploded over Eastern Siberia on June 30th, 1908. Today, as of writing, it is the 114th…
I learned this today. Rasputin managed to gain so much influence over the tsar of Russia because he appeared able to cure the tsar’s son of his hemophilia. Rasputin was…
I learned this today. Russia didn’t think it would be able to defend Alaska from Britain, had no real reason to keep Alaska, didn’t want Britain as a neighbor, and…