Strategic Stabilization: A Window of Opportunities for Russia and the U.S.

... patriots), but taking into account future military aviation and missilery developments, primarily for the Russian Kh-BD and US LRSO cruise missiles; Nuclear weapons remain the only guarantee against a major hot war in the current situation of massive international confrontation.... ... to be surrendered in the course of test launches of new ICBMs. The U.S. has been unofficially voicing its concerns about the New START procedure because Russia has tested and supplemented its arsenal with new systems since the treaty came into effect....