Interview with Andrey Kortunov and Zhao Huasheng
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine drags on. In response to France’s President Emmanuel Macron floating ... ... 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... ..., like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced...
Over the last 20 years, China and Russia promoted the idea of complete demilitarization of outer space
During a recent ... ... still exciting, topic of "star wars." Indeed, the potential deployment of nuclear weapons in space could lead to a significant shift in the global balance of... .... Today, they are widely used by both public and private sectors, and every year thousands of satellites arrive in already crowded orbits. To blind even a few of them—for...
..., at this stage, the Pacific countries are certainly not ready to host or deal with nuclear weapons in any other way.
Nuclearizing the Periphery: Great Power Impacts
Andrey... ... small states
. At least three out of the five NWSs (nuclear weapon states)—China, Russia and the US—have direct stakes in the region. However, the crippled arms control... ... those of Beijing roughly tenfold, even though China is
predicted
to have about a thousand nuclear warheads by 2030. Moreover, preventing bilateral arms control arrangements...
... for some flexibility but also raises the risks of further escalation
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has demonstrated an unprecedented use of missile capabilities... ... make that much difference, except it’s almost impossible to stop it’. Similarly, USAF Commander Gen. Wolfers claimed that Russia’s aim was ‘to
demonstrate the capability... ... combinations of conventional … capabilities, together with the unique deterrent effect of nuclear weapons.’ Further, as noted by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the dual...
As the world's two super-nuclear powers, the relations of Russia and the U.S. are inseparable from nuclear risk
Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia and the United ... ... but in different forms and with different objectives. Both Russia and the United States are well aware of the presence of the nuclear weapons factor in this conflict. Russia's main objective is to deter the United States and NATO from directly intervening ...
... important agreement on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation.
Second. The United States is the only country that has used nuclear weapons. Moreover, it was done against the civilian population. Two Japanese cities were wiped off the map without any military purpose, hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens were killed. If the US felt even a drop of shame and guilt for what it did, it would take the necessary ... ... someone else is always to blame for the destruction of international security foundations. As a rule, they point their finger at Russia. This time, if Washington does not resist the temptation to resume nuclear testing - which cannot be ruled out - it is ...
... to the proposal made at the meeting with soldiers’ mothers.
Labyrinths of escalation
Alexander Yermakov:
The Nuclear Triad: Alternatives from the Days Gone By and Possible Futures
However, there might be even a third motive for the President’s refusal. It fact nuclear deterrence is aimed at preventing a number of other threats, besides nuclear aggression, and this implies a first use of Russian nuclear weapons rather than a retaliatory one. In particular, the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation provides for the use of nuclear weapons “...in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation using conventional weapons, when the ...
...,500 notifications to each other: an average of five to six daily messages.
2
. The Russian side uses the universal provisions of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law... ... crisis” was amplified not even by the elusive threat to the U.S. from a couple of thousand Soviet troops deployed in Cuba with a small number of armored vehicles, but by... ...,” The Hilltop Review: Vol. 5 : Iss. 1 , Article 5, p. 18
7
. Woolf A. Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, Congressional Research Service, RL32572, p. 29
... of international processes. Yes, it can be said that the existence of this system was largely determined by the existence of nuclear weapons, but it was not exhausted by this factor. And when other elements of the construct began to fall away after the ... ... help of fear, based on the build-up of an existential threat. This logic was applied on a lesser level in December 2021, when Russia issued ultimatums on long-term security guarantees, threatening
“military and technical measures”
in case of refusal. The nature of these measures was revealed with the launch of the military operation on Ukrainian territory which shocked ...
... current trajectory, it will end in a total disaster for humanity
Dmitry Trenin is a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council.
Professor Sergey Karaganov’s “Tough-but-necessary decision”
article
– which claims that by using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe – has provoked plenty of reaction both at home and abroad. Partly because of the author’s status – he has been an advisor to both President Boris Yeltsin and President Vladimir ...
