... on the matter.
The death trap of defense and offense
Alexander Yermakov:
Don’t Trust and Don’t Verify. New Normality for New START
The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) enshrined the conditions of the
Mutual Assured Destruction
(MAD) that Moscow and Washington agreed upon. Both sides proceeded from the relative openness of each other’s territories to the full power of the enemy’s nuclear capabilities as part of a rational approach to deterrence. There is an opinion that it ...
... every country, which added nuclear weapons to its armoury, ever since it was invented. It spiralled into a competition, which came under some control after the realisation of its devastation in Japan, and potentials of mutually assured destruction (MAD). When Israel went nuclear, it developed a survival capability to dissuade all hostile neighbouring Arab countries. The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) required checking proliferation of nuclear weapon technology was selectively leaked by some irresponsible ...
... goals in war can be achieved by means other than nuclear arms. Many Russian and US international security experts agree that modern technologies are capable of unsettling the strategic balance.
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Mutual assured destruction (MAD) doctrine
As both countries possessed the capability to inflict unacceptable damage in a nuclear war, this mutual Soviet-American nuclear deterrence became the basis for strategic stability throughout this bi-polar world.
Strategic Stability in a ...
