Friday November 13 2015  Vitali Vitaliev, features editor Russian TV ‘accidentally’ leaks secret nuclear weapons plans “Accidentally? Only kittens get born accidentally!” Major Popov, my secondary school’s military instructor shouted when I – “accidentally”, as I hastened to explain – aimed the barrel of my loaded Kalashnikov at him. The incident happened during shooting practice in military summer camp – part of the annual ‘academic’ routine for all senior male school kids in the Soviet Union. The Major’s vodka-bloated face was ready to burst with rage – and on that particular occasion I couldn’t blame him for over-reacting. He was … Continue reading E&T news weekly #70 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week