... and destruction should be different.
Fifth, as already mentioned, current U.S. thinking about such land-based long-range non-nuclear weapons suggests that they are for warfighting, complementing sea-based and air-based capabilities in every theatre of ... ... this situation, many are wondering what Russia will do, especially since even before the statements “on the margins” of the NATO summit, the issue of production and deployment of missiles of the relevant classes was addressed at a
meeting
of President ...
... There is a huge space for work, new ideas and original solutions.
No continuation of nuclear arms reduction talks between Russia and the US in sight
Negotiations on nuclear disarmament are possible and they can even produce results: a treaty banning nuclear weapons was adopted in 2017. But there is one thing to bear in mind. There is not a single nuclear power among the signatories. Moreover, the US, UK, France and Russia have already declared that they will never sign the treaty because it does not correspond with their national interests.
As for the issue of nuclear arms reduction, the long-standing confrontation between ...
... weapons by Russia in Ukraine. The rhetoric in this regard that we heard at the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine came from the West. On the Russian side, at an expert and unofficial political level, there were talks about the possibility of nuclear weapons strikes against the targets on the territory of NATO countries, not Ukraine. Such strikes, as it was discussed, could be launched against the airfields based on modern Western aircraft transferred to Ukraine and against logistics hubs and military facilities.
Elena Karnaukhova: The USSR and the People’s ...
... will enter a new cold war, but it is more appropriate to ask whether the world will enter a new hot war, because in the 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 nearly directly involved. Under such circumstances, the talk about whether there will be a new cold war seems too pale. Some people regard the absence of two major military blocs, two major ideological systems and two major ...
... is the right direction to follow, it is very difficult to quickly find mutually acceptable conditions for a ceasefire in the current situation.
Could Russia and NATO then engage in some kind of interest exchange, with mutual commitments, such as that NATO would not deploy nuclear weapons close to Russia, or that NATO would not admit Ukraine to the organization, in exchange for assurances from Russia that it would not use nuclear weapons? Neither Russia nor NATO would accept this. NATO has always insisted on the autonomy ...
... but just a local one.
It is reasonable to ask here why an atomic attack on another nuclear-armed state or bloc [in this case NATO] would not quickly escalate into the same thermonuclear all-out war, i.e. an exchange of fire between Russia and the US? ... ... technology. And this game is designed to discourage the enemy from even thinking about a possible nuclear attack.
The use of nuclear weapons means the end game and essentially nullifies their special role, turning them simply into a very powerful means ...
... the USA, and European NATO member-states
On March 16, 2023, a regular online international expert dialog on Russia-NATO relations was held, bringing together experts, former diplomats and 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 ...
... with intelligence. They jointly plan military operations against the Russian Armed Forces. Ukrainians are being trained to use NATO military hardware in a fight.
It feels like Russia is being tested to see how long it will remain patient and refrain from ... ... of the Russian leadership.
I would like to stress that there has been no change in the conditions when our country would use nuclear weapons. In this regard, we continue to strictly adhere to the 2014 Military Doctrine and 2020 Basic Principles of State ...
... envisaged their country to become a nuclear power in a medium-term outlook
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—as did, for instance, the leaders of
Sweden
or Italy. For the time being, allied weapons were enough, especially since the U.S. began steering a course for arming its NATO allies with nuclear weapons in the late 1950s, at least by training them and by providing carriers. In the future, the U.S. seemed intent on establishing “NATO’s united nuclear forces” that were
sometimes visualized in rather exotic forms
, whether a joint ...
... Ukraine and the entire Western world is somewhat open-ended, namely, concerning the other party’s possible response. A strike against NATO territory will immediately “activate” Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and start a direct Russia–NATO conflict up to massive mutual use of nuclear weapons. Russia’s President indirectly confirmed it when he said in his Address to the Federal Assembly on March 1, 2018, “Any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies, weapons of short, medium or any yield will be considered as ...
