... ambitions modernization programs, and some even plan to increase numbers of nuclear warheads, which raises doubts about their commitment to Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and encourages potential proliferators to continue attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. Moreover, strategic arms control per se is in a deep crisis: the United States walked out of the ABM and INF agreements, while Russia suspended its participation to the New START that in any case expires in the beginning of 2026. It is not at all clear whether the strategic arms control as we know it since early 1970s survives the current confrontation between Moscow and the ...
The nuclear weapons taboo is undoubtedly weakening, but Moscow shouldn’t be the first to break it
Professor Sergey Karaganov’s “Tough-but-necessary decision”
article
– which claims that by using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe – has provoked plenty of reaction both at home and abroad. This is partly due to the author’s status – he has been an adviser to both President Boris Yeltsin and President Vladimir Putin – and ...
... research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council.
Professor Sergey Karaganov’s “Tough-but-necessary decision”
article
– which claims that by using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe – has provoked plenty of reaction both at home and abroad. Partly because of the author’s status – he has been an advisor to both President Boris Yeltsin and President Vladimir Putin – and also ...
... first Russian strike).
Kira Sazonova:
Fair and Unfair Play: Regulating Means and Methods of Warfare
What should Russia do in such a situation? Respond by firing tactical missiles at the rest of Europe? But in this case, Americans will use their tactical nuclear weapons against Russian military facilities and cities. What’s next? Use strategic weapons? But the one who uses them first will die second as a result of a retaliatory strike. This will be a disaster with tens of millions of casualties in Russia, Europe, and America....
... military, public leaders from Russia, the USA, and European NATO member-states.
The organizers of the dialog on the Russian side included RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies and RAS Institute of Europe. The meeting focused on the U.S. and Russia nuclear weapons modernization issues, new technologies and implications for the nuclear balance, strategic and pre-strategic: what agreement (if any) will replace START III, provided that the topic of nuclear arms control can be separated from the confrontation ...
Working Paper No. 68/2022
Working Paper No. 68/2022
The first atomic bomb was designed almost eight decades ago. Since then, the nuclear factor has become one of the game-changers in international relations. The possession of nuclear weapons has become especially important in modern times, as discussions of the fatal destructiveness the use of atomic weapons for all mankind have reintensified. There is increasing speculation on this topic in the international arena. Nevertheless,...
... U.S. experts about the possibility of a
nuclear conflict
between Moscow and Washington. This issue has become even more acute in recent days when senior officials of the U.S. administration began sending us direct signals warning against the use of nuclear weapons in the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Moreover, threats against us have started to be heard from the official establishment.
Princeton University has even made
predictions
that millions of Americans and Russians would perish in the exchange ...
... tensions with China and its decision to achieve strategic parity with the United States, the U.S. response should soon be expected.
The element of confrontation between the U.S. and China, the decision made by the UK to increase the number of deployed nuclear weapons of its own, as well as the aggravation of relations between Russia and the United States, together with the dialogue on strategic stability put on hold, usher in a new stage in the nuclear arms race in the world. Perhaps, this stressful situation will lead to a new multilateral arms control system.
At the doctrinal ...
... Jackson J. Nuclear weapons threat increases as Putin grows more desperate.
Newsweek
, April 15, 2022.
https://www.Newsweek.com/nuclear-weapons-threat-increases-putin-grows-more-desperate-1698630
(accessed May 25, 2022).
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. Bugos Sh. Putin orders Russian nuclear weapons on higher alert.
Arms Control Today
, March 2022.
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-03/news/putin-orders-russian-nuclear-weapons-higher-alert
(accessed May 25, 2022); Alberque W., Hoffmann F. Three scenarios for nuclear risk over ...
... “met” quite unexpectedly for all parties. It should be specifically noted that all nuclear powers are interested in preventing such a scenario. After all, Russia’s military and political leadership unequivocally stated that it is impossible to use nuclear weapons in any conflict that endangers Russia’s territorial integrity, but not the existence of Russia itself: “
you cannot use a nuclear bomb in every conflict
.”
Of course, many things change, but I dare suggest that the choice between “being kicked into the minor league” and a ...
