As international tensions grow, scientific developments become more crucial than ever to creating war-winning technologies. There is a reason the Manhattan Project was kept under strict security measures – and even then, there were leaks.
Beginning in the 1940s, Stalin’s USSR used intelligence to steal America’s atomic secrets and develop nuclear weapons. Throughout the Cold War, the Soviets ran a massive spying operation to gain access to submarine, computer, and space tech. In preparation for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine and as the conflict continued, Russia ramped up its intelligence gathering and influence activities around the world. Recently, concerns have once again been raised that Moscow has had an unobstructed path to obtaining information about cutting-edge nuclear technology from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
The CERN expelled Russia after launching his invasion. However, this has allowed Russian scientists to participate through the procedure to cooperate with the Joint Nuclear Studies Institute (Jinr). This resolution was debatable at that time and remains. Jinr is apparently a foreign establishment founded in Dubna, Russia, about 130 km north of Moscow, and the reports continue to circulate, indicating that it is almost in the pocket of the Russian army.
In an official statement signed through Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 19, 2024, Russia has expanded its nuclear doctrine, reducing the threshold to display atomic weapons on the occasion of an attack against Russia through a non -nuclear actor supported through of a nuclear force. Therefore, those who worry that Jinr scientists show themselves in the CERN constitute an avoidable security threat considers that the scenario is even more urgent. They argue that through the procedure to allow Russian participation, CERN opens the door to Moscow to stay aware of nuclear clinical progress and use this data for the use of the army to the detriment of European and global security.
Jinr’s link with the Russian war device was reported in the past. Representatives of the Institute sent to CERN have links with about 77 Russian entities sanctioned by their war in Ukraine and links with the progression of weapons, such as the Institute of Physics and Moscow technology, which develops drones and combat airplanes.
Professor Boris Grynyov, Ukraine’s representative to CERN, was able to further outline JINR’s relationship with the Russian defense sector in an exclusive interview with Forbes:Between 2010 and 2024, JINR directly collaborated with enterprises actively involved in defense industry production: manufacturers of military UAVs, microelectronics, missile weaponry, and components for such systems. Among JINR’s partners were state enterprises, such as MKB Raduga and VNIIA, and private defense contractors, including subsidiaries of the AFK Sistema group.
Grynyov also noted:
JINR has multiple joint ventures with FSB and even operates its trade union office out of an FSB building in Dubna. Furthermore, JINR’s security staff are FSB officers. Scientists from JINR who participate in the FSB ventures are also members of large international collaborations, granting them unrestricted access to scientific institutions worldwide. JINR also claims participation in experiments at two major US laboratories: Fermilab near Chicago and Brookhaven National Laboratory near New York; as well as experiments in Italy, in France, and in Germany.
In addition, Grynyov noticed the importance of Jinr and MKB Rauga in the city of Dubna, where Rauga makes parts of the aircraft and KH-101 missiles used in attacks opposed to Ukraine, such as the ‘Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv.
KH-101 missiles, used in Russian movements on Ukraine, are developed through MKB Rauga connected to Jinr
The use through Russia of Jinr and its partners for the army’s R&D has consequences far beyond the existing clash in Ukraine. In the end, it can serve as a conduit of data for the Kremlin’s allies, North Korea and Iran, which signed defense treaties with Moscow respectively in 2024 and 2025. Thus, Moscow’s booming cooperation with each other threatens not only the United States and Europe and Europe. , but also nations in the Middle East and East Asia. Jinr’s coordination with the two terror regimes is channeled through the Dubna Special Economic Zone (ZES) and Dubna State University, as evidenced through the 2023 ZES cooperation agreement with Iran and a North Korean ministerial stopover in April 2024.
Representatives from Russia’s Dubna Special Economic Zone and Iran’s Organization of the Free Zone … [+] of Commerce and Industry “Anzali” sign a Memorandum of Cooperation
Jinr’s 2025 current affairs plan lists at least five Iranian organizations, adding at least one known to have ties to Iran’s nuclear program. Such a primary data breach has only been received half measures from Europe. In December 2024, Peter Beyer, a member of the German Bundestag of the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU), submitted a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen regarding Russian clinical espionage through Jinr, among other establishments. Noting several of the dangers expressed through Professor Grynov, Beyer called on the EU to take action against Russian clinical establishments receiving and reusing clinical data for their defense sector. He considers the US and Ukrainian sanctions against Rosatom a step in the right direction, they leave several gaps.
Upon arriving at Mr. Beyer for his opinion on how Europe develops, he advised a more powerful answer:
The only way to counter Russian clinical espionage is to prevent malign actors from hiding behind “clinical neutrality” when the movements of those organizations are obviously not peaceful. And that full, breach-free sanctions on Jinr and his top collaborators, the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center and Rosatom, are mandatory to counter Russian clinical espionage in Europe and the United States.
Russian subversion of multilateral organizations for political ends is not new. What Dr. Janusz Bugajski, a pre-eminent scholar of Eastern Europe security, called in his Center for European Policy Analysis article “salami tactics,” the step-by-step subversion of an organization or political system, has been part of the Russian espionage playbook for decades. First coined in relation to the Sovietization of Eastern Europe, Russia has long employed this approach within international organizations to render them either ineffective or inadvertently advancing Russian interests. Russian malfeasance was obvious in the OSCE and brought the organization to near total paralysis. In the Arctic Council, a confrontation arose, resulting in Russia’s expulsion from the organization.
Even on the very unlikely occasion that each Russian scientist at CERN or other foreign clinical establishments personally opposes war in Ukraine, expelling them and ending cooperation with Jinr remains a very important European interest. These scientists have a career or circle of relatives of relatives the ties in Russia that can be coercively exploited through the Russian authorities. In addition, even if they do not help Putin’s war, his paintings legitimize Russian participation in foreign organizations such as “business as always. “
Russia’s participation in complex clinical organizations such as CERN in Jinr represents a long -term threat. By giving access to Moscow to clinical discoveries that can be reused for their defense industry or legitimacy, European establishments equip it to maintain their invasion, degenerate threats to European nations, and emit their sanctioned allies while painting to destabilize the world, They cause the balance of force in favor of Moscow and Beijing. By allowing these activities to continue under the sheet of clinical neutrality, Europe and their establishments are creating global safety hazards and threatening the legitimacy of these important multilateral clinical organizations.
Jinr reached out and did not comment on this story at the time of publication.
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