... reliable channel for the powers to cooperate in preventing nuclear war, strengthening strategic stability and predictability, exchanging information, explaining the reasons... ... have played a useful supplementary role.
Without a reliable foundation in the form of arms control treaties, it would be impossible in future to discuss the limitation of... ... next victim of the destruction paradigm will be the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The Russian side has already warned about this possibility at the top level. [
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] Then, the treaties prohibiting the deployment of nuclear weapons in space and on the bottom of oceans and seabed will also collapse....
... simple as possible
Amidst accusations of non-compliance towards Russia, on 20 October 2018 US President Donald Trump announced ... ... confrontation in Europe and has been one of the pillars of nuclear arms control.
Could the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) ... ... the New START, there will be a broader issue of maintaining the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime. We should not forget ... ... the absence of an adequate international legal foundation for strategic stability, this stability can and should be improved ...
... 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” period and approach the next,...
