... West or the East that would force the national leaders to accept arms control as a foreign policy priority.
Therefore, Russia, the ... ... the absence of formal obligations under the INF Treaty or the New START Treaty cannot stop the sides from honouring them de facto.... ... Treaty.
Second, any Russia-US consultations on the principles of strategic stability would be useful in the first or second track ... ... Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Withdrawal from the INF Treaty and, more ...
... Renewed by 2021 and will thus Cease to Exist
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), one of the pillars of strategic stability in the world, fell apart before our very eyes. And now the foundations of the core instrument of global arms control – the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) – are starting to crumble too, as it is looking dangerously ... ... we started preparing ourselves for the possibility of waking up in March 2021 in a world where there are no restrictions on nuclear weapons.
The potential disintegration of New START would not be catastrophic for Russia, all the more so because the country could derive some benefit from the “inter-treaty” ...