... Stabilizing “Basic Principles”: Moscow Reduces Options for Pre-Nuclear Escalation. Russia’s leading experts on the new Russia’s nuclear doctrine
When the United States announced its withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) in 2019, Moscow’s response was quite restrained. President Vladimir Putin pledged that Russia would not place such systems in Europe or anywhere else unless U.S.-made weapons of this kind appeared there. Russia was essentially imposing voluntary restrictions on itself, but only regarding operational measures, while the development, testing ...
... significant achievement in nuclear arms control.
Amid the escalating security crisis following the events in Ukraine in 2014, Russia redoubled its efforts to maintain a balance of power in the missile and nuclear sphere. While adhering to existing international ... ... continued to deteriorate. In 2019, the Trump administration initiated the withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The INF crisis was preceded by years of mutual accusations, fuelled by new technological realities, the collapse ...
... nuclear status.
As I’ve already mentioned, irrespective of the extension or non-extension of START, sooner or later the U.S. and Russia will have to think of the new arrangements in the field of nuclear arms control. I’m sure that future agreements will ... ... intelligence, and other disruptive technologies that can undermine command, control, communication, intelligence, and critical infrastructure. Some of these technologies could have a profound impact on the strategic environment, particularly those that ...
