... ongoing Russia-Ukraine armed conflict millions of soldiers have been fighting for two years, using almost all heavy weapons except nuclear weapons such as airplanes, tanks, artillery, warships, missiles, etc., and the U.S. and the NATO countries are already ... ... features of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced to rubble, the accumulation of hundreds ...
... members, or signatories, to the Treaty, including all major space-faring nations.
The document not only bans the deployment of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in space, but also prohibits the establishment of military bases, testing ... ... of us depend on satellites more and more. Today, they are widely used by both public and private sectors, and every year thousands of satellites arrive in already crowded orbits. To blind even a few of them—for example, with high-precision laser beams—would ...
... a clarification of provisions on the specifics of the nuclear umbrella. After a decades-long hiatus, the practice of US SSBN stops in the coastal cities was resumed. In addition to truly consequential
visits
by Ohio-class submarines to the port of Busan, a
Nuclear Consultative Group
was established, primarily to regularly coordinate the details vis-à-vis deterring the North
Although the Japanese population is not so unanimous in gravitating towards nuclear weapons as the South Koreans [
v
] are, global instability ignited a heated debate in Japan. Several months before his assassination, Abe S. triggered an
argument
regarding Japan possibly hosting US nuclear warheads. Even as incumbent Prime Minister ...
... crisis that heightened the risk of a direct military confrontation between the two nuclear-capable states.
Russia’s and the USA’s escalation strategies and potential nuclear escalation risks
In June 2020, Russia and the U.S.
agreed on expert-level ... ... such as UAVs, through ‘tailored combinations of conventional … capabilities, together with the unique deterrent effect of nuclear weapons.’ Further, as noted by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the dual capability of hypersonic missiles may ...
... outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia and the United States have been engaged in an almost open nuclear game, but in different forms and with different objectives. Both Russia and the United States are well aware of the presence of the nuclear weapons factor in this conflict. Russia's main objective is to deter the United States and NATO from directly intervening in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The U.S., on the other hand, tends to believe that Russia will not or dare not use nuclear ...
... remains a renegade. Other countries in their decisions on this issue look at the US who in fact contributes to the erosion of this important agreement on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation.
Second. The United States is the only country that has used nuclear weapons. Moreover, it was done against the civilian population. Two Japanese cities were wiped off the map without any military purpose, hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens were killed. If the US felt even a drop of shame and guilt for what it did, it would take the necessary measures for ratification.
The United States’ policy, including on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, is ...
... to the proposal made at the meeting with soldiers’ mothers.
Labyrinths of escalation
Alexander Yermakov:
The Nuclear Triad: Alternatives from the Days Gone By and Possible Futures
However, there might be even a third motive for the President’s refusal. It fact nuclear deterrence is aimed at preventing a number of other threats, besides nuclear aggression, and this implies a first use of Russian nuclear weapons rather than a retaliatory one. In particular, the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation provides for the use of nuclear weapons “...in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation using conventional weapons, when the ...
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. The travesty of this “brigade crisis” was amplified not even by the elusive threat to the U.S. from a couple of thousand Soviet troops deployed in Cuba with a small number of armored vehicles, but by the fact that the U.S. intelligence community ... ... Verify: Reagan, Gorbachev, and the INF Treaty,” The Hilltop Review: Vol. 5 : Iss. 1 , Article 5, p. 18
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... of international processes. Yes, it can be said that the existence of this system was largely determined by the existence of nuclear weapons, but it was not exhausted by this factor. And when other elements of the construct began to fall away after the ... ... Russia issued ultimatums on long-term security guarantees, threatening
“military and technical measures”
in case of refusal. The nature of these measures was revealed with the launch of the military operation on Ukrainian territory which shocked ...
... 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 ...
