... Wednesday in comments on Russian-American relations.
"Our priority task is not to allow the Russian-American arms control regime break up completely. The most important task for today is to preserve the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), extend the New START treaty. Of course, this is also cooperation of Russia and the US on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as efforts not to let the nuclear deal with Iran fail and to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula to ...
... granted either as President Trump demonstrated little appreciation of arguably one of the most significant accomplishments of the Obama Administration. Besides, should INF fall, New Start would be much more difficult to extend.
Alexander Yermakov:
The INF Treaty Is Under Attack. Down a Road Paved with Good Intentions
Within these overall ceilings, both Washington and Moscow would be in a position to blend individual cocktails of strategic, intermediate range and tactical systems to their liking. There ...
CSIS and RIAC Meeting Report
CSIS and RIAC Meeting Report
The U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) convened the latest in a series of expert meetings on U.S.-Russia relations in
October 2017 in Moscow
. The mood was grim: participants were unanimous that the current state of bilateral relations is dire and in danger of spiraling down further. In Russia, that country’s representatives reported, the conventional wisdom...
.... Naturally, such dialogue should also cover non-nuclear but de-facto strategic arms, as well as cyberweapons.
The sides concerned acting within the framework of existing treaties or agreeing to amend them (which may happen to the obviously outdated INF Treaty) should have a right to modernize their nuclear arsenals or even change their configuration. But in doing so they should be guided by the philosophy of mutual stable deterrence rather than attempts to eliminate nuclear weapons (which will be ...
... notwithstanding. In terms of substance, I would single out three urgent tasks that we have to address together. First, to preserve the strategic arms control regime, namely – to extend the New START Agreement and to secure the continuous implementation INF Treaty. Second, to work together on dangerous regional problems – such as Afghanistan, North Korea or Libya and, hopefully, Syria as well. Third, to explore ways for collaborating on fighting against international terrorism on the global scale. ...
... state of the Soviet-American Treaty on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces of 1987 and the prospects of its further implementation
March of 2017 was notable for a severe criticism thrown by the US administration accusing Russia of violating the INF Treaty provisions. Paul Selva, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, claimed that Russia had started deploying ground-based cruise missiles posing a direct threat to NATO’s infrastructure in Europe and having technical characteristics ...
... first time during the Cold War, the parties agreed to eliminate entire classes of nuclear weapons that had been deployed in great numbers and had had a major significance for military planning.
U.S. Army Pershing II in Germany
In its current form the INF Treaty has long been an unfair arrangement since only the U.S. and Russia imposed self-restrictions.
The exacerbation of tensions, mutual pressure and accusations have put a cornerstone Russia-U.S. agreement – the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces ...
It may be said that the future of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (the INF Treaty) is assured. Moreover, should a critical situation arise, the United States is more likely to withdraw from it than Russia. The INF Treaty is beneficial for the Kremlin, since without it, the United States could deploy major medium-range missile ...
The official opening of a ballistic missile defence base in Romania was among the top news stories last week news on the worsening Russia–America “partnership.”
To be precise, the Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defence System was “certified” at the US Naval base in Deveselu on May 12, and it is now officially operation-ready
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. Construction was actually completed a year ago, in May 2015 (having lasted 18 months), with the time in between being used to test Aegis...
... horrific. Our positions differ in principle, and the subject is one for a separate discussion. But in the context of our relationship, the topic of nuclear missiles lies in a quite different plane
. By linking the two issues we will only undermine the INF Treaty, capsizing strategic stability in the process. It is already dead on its feet. Will the security of the United States, Russia and Europe improve as a result? Does Ukraine stand to benefit? No. Neither can we hope to conclude a new INF Treaty ...
