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A New Era of Arms Control: Myths, Realities and Options

... agreement at both expert and government levels. Now they have been used as the official pretext for the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty (in addition to accusing Russia of violating it). Washington also uses these arguments to oppose the extension of the ... ... interesting subject for discussion. As for deployed strategic nuclear weapons covered by the New START, the U.K., France and China have a total of 500 such weapons, 7 while each of the two superpowers possesses over 2,000. 8 Other states have only intermediate-range ...

28.10.2019

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Intermediate-Range Challenges

... certain degree of transparency as applied to its own arsenals. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China has been calling for the preservation of the treaty, but this is clearly not enough now. The INF Treaty is falling apart at the seams, creating threats to all the arms control regimes in their current form. The crisis could ... ... bury the very principle of arms control or create an environment for a new strategic stability architecture. France and the United Kingdom are obviously concerned about the possibility of becoming targets for Russia’s restored non-strategic missiles....

13.11.2018

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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)