... Afghanistan and failed ratification of SALT II (1979) only by five years delayed the talks that were crowned with signing the INF Treaty (1987) and START I (1991). Soon after NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia, SORT treaty (2002) was concluded that paved the way for New START (2010).
Overcoming humanitarian,... ... be a more difficult and protracted endeavor. However, the resumption of arms control and normalization of relations between Russia and the West is imperative for the foreseeable future.
Russia–U.S. dialog should preferably be resumed before the prolonged ...
... it accused Russia of violating the terms in August 2019. RIAC produced a
series of articles
on the issue at the time, and there is no need to rehash the arguments presented in earlier pieces.
It is worth noting that mass-production and deployment of Russian land-based mobile missile systems carrying 9M729 cruise missiles (NATO reporting name SSC-8)—allegedly in violation of the INF Treaty—disappeared from news feeds immediately once the Treaty collapsed, with Washington “for some reason” no longer informing the rest of the world about its distribution in the Russian army. Russia, in turn, had counterclaims against the ...
... Russia wants the dialogue to cover all offensive and defensive, nuclear and non-nuclear strategic weapons.
The disruptive technologies are another complicating factor. Hypersonics are a real concern should such systems be deployed in the proximity of Russia. The same relates to the new INF systems, which are being quickly developed by the U.S. In Germany there is already a revived NATO military infrastructure, closed in the aftermath of the 1987 INF treaty, and designed for operating INF systems. In the eyes of Moscow there is a high probability of a new Euromissile crisis exploding in two to three years if Russia’s proposals for a moratorium are not responded to in a rational way. Nuclear ...
... unfortunately hard to count on the OSCE as a platform for “structured dialogue” either since this platform has not even yet brought about the modernisation of the Vienna document.
This means we need to think about creating a separate ad hoc group in NATO to conduct talks with Russia on the INF Treaty. This group could probably include members of the Alliance that are also members of the “Nuclear Club”, namely the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Perhaps countries that accommodate elements of the US European missile defence ...
... messages, that were read on the radio.
Today some people compare the tensions over INF with the Cuban missile crisis,
even on the Russian side
…
At this point, our biggest concern is the shrinking network of legal obligations in the field of nuclear arms ... ... Mutually assured destruction…
Yes. So, these treaties were supplemented by further ones like SALT 1, 2 and 3, and, in 1987, the
INF Treaty
. We were also proposing further agreements, both bilaterally with the US and in our dialogue with NATO.
Unfortunately, after the abrogation of the INF treaty, this backsliding continued. And the fact that the current US administration ...
Ambassador Anatoly Antonov is participating in 2019 Arms Control Association Annual Meeting
Ambassador ... ... and, therefore, benefit our people.
Why does the majority in the world pressure the Russian Federation and the USA on arms control? I’ll try to answer. The Russian Federation... ... Let’s take a look at what has been done by the Russian Federation to preserve the INF Treaty. Since 2007 we have been making suggestions to make the Treaty multilateral...
... this information appears to be quite interesting. Furthermore, the data supplied by Russian sources largely confirms the assumption that the warhead is the main feature... ... along, but did not emerge until now due to concerns about possible breaches of the INF Treaty, and that it was only greenlighted once an appropriate, militarily significant... ... missile defences) was clearly considered to be very valuable.
Unfortunately, the key NATO and EU member nations ignored the presentation, and not necessarily of their own...
... Russia to assume a more active position compared to the one it demonstrated during the INF Treaty crisis, as well as to step up work, primarily with European countries, which are concerned about the possibility of a new missile crisis on the continent.
Russia’s possible R&D response to Washington’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty merits a separate detailed article.
1
. For the sake of practical convenience, the signatories to the INF Treaty permitted each other to bench-test their ground-launched cruise missiles at one testing centre per country.
2
. On the evening of December 4, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
tweeted
that the U.S. Ambassador ...
... in the final phase of the Cold War confrontation under President of the United States Ronald Reagan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher and Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl.
That It is highly unlikely at the present juncture that Russia and the United States are harbouring plans to destroy each other.
The United States, in turn, could use the termination of the INF Treaty as a way to achieve greater solidarity within NATO. At present, the Alliance is not just a political and military instrument for its member countries, but also a relatively self-sufficient structure with its own system of interests. NATO maintains a military community of its member states, whose ...
... makes sense to accede to Russian demands that missile defense and advanced conventional strike forces be part of any next step in bilateral U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear arms talks—provided Russia understands that no next steps are likely unless the INF treaty is preserved. If the goal, ten years from now, is to have resumed the effort to build a Europe at peace, with NATO and Russian military forces no longer facing off, and neither the threat or actual use of force an ever present danger, a country as crucial as Ukraine cannot remain a permanent source of tension. Progress in this case, however, requires rethinking the way ...
