Search: Russia,Nuclear weapons (102 materials)

 

A Preemptive Nuclear Strike? No!

... 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....

20.06.2023

Russia-NATO International Expert Dialog Meeting on the U.S. and Russia Nuclear Weapons Modernization Issues

... 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 ...

18.03.2023

The Nuclear Triad: Alternatives from the Days Gone By and Possible Futures

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,...

08.11.2022

Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 Over Ukraine?

... 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 ...

30.09.2022

Nuclear War — a Hypothetical Scenario or a Real Threat? RIAC Urban Breakfast

... 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 ...

05.09.2022

The Ukrainian Crisis and Strategic Stability

... 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). 31 . 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 ...

18.07.2022

Special Warheads and the Special Military Operation

... “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 ...

06.07.2022

NATO Not Taking Nuclear War Threat Seriously

... military nuclear capabilities," Antonov said. "In the same vein — statements made by Polish leaders about their readiness to deploy American nuclear weapons on their territory. And some hotheads on Capitol Hill even allege to call to use nuclear weapons against Russia." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied that his statements disparaging the 1994 Budapest Memorandum constituted a call for developing nuclear weapons. The deal, reached three years after Ukraine declared its independence, launched ...

06.05.2022

Russia and Turkey: State and Prospects of Energy Cooperation

Working Paper No. 63 Working Paper No. 63 Cooperation in the energy sector is one of the most important facets of Russian foreign policy. Interaction in this area helps to develop mutually beneficial trade relations and ensure the energy security of Russia and its partners. Energy cooperation between Russia and Turkey has been comprehensive and strategic in recent ...

16.03.2022

Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group Supports Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States Affirming: “A Nuclear War Cannot be Won and Must Never be Fought”

... statement : “We welcome the leadership shown by the leaders of The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America in their January ... ... technologies reduce decision time for leaders. Such a principle is also at the core of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) whose Preamble recognizes “the devastation that would be visited upon all mankind by a nuclear war and ...

14.01.2022
 

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