... of a nuclear missile and it would be naive to blissfully rely on Pyongyang’s reluctance to use it. Moreover, North Korea has repeatedly stressed that if the United States “does not abandon its hostile policy,” it will not eliminate nuclear weapons “even if the sky falls to the ground.”
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It’s difficult to understand why the regime intensified diplomatic efforts to restore its relations with China, South Korea and countries in Southeast Asia in late 2015.
These ...
... influence of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) fund make the report interesting not only for nuclear arms control experts, but also for a wider circle of readers who care about the issues of security in the Euro-Atlantic region and the world.
The Use of Nuclear Weapons is Real, but How Real?
The report is based on a survey of leading researchers at U.S., British, German and Russian think tanks. The authors cite differing and sometimes opposite assessments made by the Russian and Western sides. But, as ...
... host this meeting with the Luxembourg Forum.
There is plenty to discuss and many challenges to address:
There is a corrosive lack of trust undermining cooperation between our U.S. and Russia leaders and nations.
Harsh, irresponsible rhetoric regarding nuclear weapons is being used.
There is no agreed process or an agenda for next steps on nuclear arms control and risk reduction.
Arms control experts in both the U.S. and Russia are disappearing as they retire and leave the scene. And with them go ...
I felt a sense of deja vu reading Troitskiy’s polemical
response
. The very title of the article “Why Nuclear Weapons Are Strategically Useless?” gives rise to troubling associations. More than once in history has a particular kind of weapon been declared “strategically useless.” In the early twentieth century, French military commanders ...
... his comments and I would like to say that I go along with most of his arguments. They are backed up by known facts and references to a large body of sources and literature. However, these arguments do not put into question the key point of my essay
.
Nuclear Weapons and Survival States
First and foremost, my argument is that possessing nuclear weapons does not enable a state to solve the main and often vital problems of its own security. Second, nuclear weapons do not ensure “international stability” ...
M. Troitsky’s
article
, published, symbolically, on the tragic anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, touches upon an intriguing and highly relevant issue, namely, the possibility of nuclear disarmament. The author argues that fewer nuclear weapons would make the world safer. He makes some interesting remarks to bolster his argument, but I find it hard to agree with some of them.
Why Do We Need Nuclear Weapons?
Troitsky asks an interesting question: “Is there a cause-and-effect ...
Why the nuclear weapons is not the main security guarantee
Commemorating the 70-year tragic anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seems appropriate to once again ponder over the role of nuclear weapons in the world, as well as over their ...
... interpretative declarations in order to remove any ambiguity. Russia clarified that it will abandon the treaty in the event of a military attack against its territory or its allies.
Other instances include
the entry or transit of ships and aircraft carrying nuclear weapons into the ports and airports of Central Asian states. The reservations expressed by Great Britain and France suggest that Articles 3 and 4 of the CANWFZ Treaty, prohibiting Central Asian countries from developing, producing and stockpiling ...
... Tonopah Test Range in NV became the site for the
successful testing
of the 12th version of the B61 nuclear bomb, which was dropped from an F-15E uncharged, consequently causing no explosion. The event was part of the life extension program for U.S. nuclear weapons that also covers warheads for sea-based Tridents and ground-based Minutemen. The modernization is supposed to extend their life by 30 years, since the program provides for the replacement of mechanical components, for example, the B61 ...
... Russia applies for its Arctic sector but is again rejected. What next? Russia is likely to establish its sovereignty unilaterally, and the response of others is far from clear. States are moving toward more intensive conflicts with the local use of nuclear weapons, but the victorious deal will remain the standard outcome.
To this end, what about Asia-Pacific?
Because of the unsettled territorial dispute, Japan is Russia’s biggest regional problem. With the Japanese economy waning, militarized ...
