... influence,” if the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee himself urged the abandonment of the use of nuclear weapons for political purposes? Incidentally, the Reagan administration did not think much of Gorbachev's initiatives on global nuclear disarmament and tried to duck the issue.
Nuclear weapons are designed to solve two tasks. Their military task is to destroy the strategic potential of the opponent by carrying out countervalue, counterforce or decapitation attacks. Their military-political ...
... importantly, Moscow and Washington publicly presented their agreements as proof of their honest adherence to general and complete nuclear disarmament pursuant to Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Both the USSR/Russia ... ... other than a direct and large-scale (and therefore unlikely) military aggression.
By contrast, the risks these weapons pose for international security are very real. Fenenko rightly notes that terrorist groups, fortunately, have not been able to gain access ...
GlobalSecurityNewswire Reporter: Russian Expert Urges to Ban Ground-Based Missile
In early 2014, the Russian International Affairs Council published a working paper "
Multilateral Approach to Nuclear Disarmament
" devoted to strategic stability and control of nuclear weapons, which was reviewed by Rachel Oswald from GlobalSecurityNewswire who cited the paper's major author Dr. Alexander Savelyev, Head of Strategic Research Section at ...
... paper №9
The goal of this research is to examine one of the possible options to continue disarmament process involving all member states of the Big Five. This study represents a vision of potential actions by Russia to engage third countries in the nuclear disarmament process at it subsequent stages, analyses the current state in nuclear sphere. The author develops the key idea, which could serve as a basis for multilateral negotiations. The author takes into account viewpoints of the leading experts ...
... arms held. Steven Pifer, Director of the Brookings Arms Control Initiative and former U.S. ambassador, casts light upon the prospects for further bilateral Russia-U.S. nuclear negotiations.
What are the new challenges facing Russia-U.S. relations on nuclear disarmament and deterrence?
First of all, the good thing is that both sides are implementing the new START treaty, but I think there has been something of a pause for the past year. As I see it, the Russian side has waited because of the uncertainty ...