... respectively). Moreover, pressure is growing in U.S. expert and political circles to abandon the agreement in order to restructure nuclear deterrence around simultaneous confrontation with two major adversaries, Russia and China [Edelman, Miller 2025]. Russian ... ... simultaneously a means of strengthening the NPT.
Thus, urgent action is required to safeguard the main elements of the nuclear arms control system in order to buy time for strengthening its foundations and further adapting it to new international realities ...
... military use. The goal of such influence is to eliminate first-strike opportunities and incentives and to enhance stability in its clear strategic sense (as opposed to idealistic “peace for the world” interpretation).
In the “golden age” of arms control—from the mid-1980s to the late 2000s—nuclear deterrence reigned supreme in international security, the threat of nuclear war, at least between the great powers, approached zero, and nuclear weapons virtually vanished from the focus of global political and public attention. It even came down ...
Policy Brief #44 / 2022
Policy Brief #44 / 2022
In October 2022, Joseph Biden’s administration published the new U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR-2022) as part of a single National Defense Strategy (NDS-2022) package along with the Missile Defense Review (MDR-2022). The previous Nuclear Posture Review appeared in February 2018 during Donald Trump’s presidency.
One of the key functions of any publicly available strategic document is to deliver information to other states – both friendly and hostile...
