... working group held in Istanbul on April 8–9, 2019.
The participants focused on the most challenging areas of military technology development that could have a destabilizing effect on strategic stability. They also discussed possible new formats for arms control, that could have a deterrent effect on the arms race in space, high-precision weapons, AI weapons, etc.
Russian side was represented by Aleksey Arbatov, RIAC Member, Head of the Center for International Security at IMEMO RAS; Andrey Kortunov,...
... deep analysis involved, one is capable of noticing the
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nary similarities of protozoa, harmless amphibians, dangerous pangolins, giant dinosaurs, nimble and intelligent mammals and the technical development of cold steel, throwing weapons, firearms, Roman fortifications, World War I tanks, miniature drones, and compact robots.
This allows us to make the following parallel definition of biological (technical)
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n: the natural (artificial) development of nature (a weapons system) accompanied ...
... of multi-tech, multi-actor, complex, fast-paced, poorly understood, cross-domain effects is a phenomenon and a problem in its own right, independent of the dangers in any given technology domain.
The goal(s) should be:
Strategic stability
Minimising harms
These goals cannot be achieved without:
Prioritisation
New paradigms for arms control
Prioritisation. We suggest the following criteria for action:
Prioritise the pursuit of existential common interests between states
Prioritise tackling those technologies ...
... group comprises risks associated with removing human agents from the decision to use weapons, the so-called “meaningful human control problem.” The global public (NGOs such as Stop Killer Robots, Article 36, the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, businesspersons and scientists,
in particular
, Steven Hawking, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak) believe it highly probable that fully autonomous weapons will not be able to comply with international humanitarian law and human rights and will ...
The Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems has already Begun
On September 6–7, 2018 the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (
SIPRI
) and the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (
CICIR
) held a ...
... debriefing of the Russian Federation’s main defense hierarchy. Additionally, there is a discussion concerning the core military capabilities possessed by the current Russian state. The report takes care to mention Russian involvement in multilateral arms reduction treaties, somewhat contradicting the accusatory tone that followed the statement criticizing Russia’s refusal to adhere to “no-first-strike” agreements earlier in the report. The Russia-U.S. “New START” (New Strategic Arms Reduction ...
... scenario. Today, Iskander missiles periodically deployed in Kaliningrad are permanently deployed in Luga in the Leningrad region, and they are moved to Kaliningrad for military exercises or in case of an escalation.
The situation with New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is more complicated. New START expires in a few years. Right now, we cannot say whether it will be followed by START IV and a further reduction in nuclear weapons, since it is disadvantageous for Russia in the current circumstances....
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Sergey Markedonov:
Vladimir Putin Meets with Serzh Sargsyan:
Moscow Supports a Compromise
After the April events even Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan, known for his cautiousness in public pronouncements, raised the issue of the Russian arms supplies at a meeting with Russia’s PM Dmitry Medvedev.
No matter when exactly the Iskanders arrived to Armenia, the fact that Yerevan has them at all helps maintain a balance between the two sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Recent years ...
... cooperation agreement of December 10, 2014 remains merely a drafted project.
The Russian government’s response in case of a second Korean war is unclear.
China
: today, China is North Korea’s most certain ally. 4 Chinese armies (3 combined-arms armies and 1 tank army) totaling about 250,000 soldiers are deployed in the border region ready to come to North Korea’s aid. Beijing is not at all happy at the prospect of finding at its borders a powerful united Korea and THAAD systems capable ...
U.S. President Barack Obama’s trip to Vietnam and lifting of the arms embargo will no doubt boost bilateral relations. But for Hanoi it is still a rebalance, not a pivot, as Vietnam still has a strong reliance on Russian military exports.
Earlier this week, in a farewell trip to Asia, U.S. President Barack Obama concluded ...
