... desire to extend it unless Russia agreed to “freeze” its nuclear holdings which in fact meant declaration and verification of Russian non-strategic nuclear arsenal. Even a very modest proposal, made by President Putin, to extend START for one year without ... ... old history of nuclear arms control was coming to its end. In general, the collapse of arms control agreements (such as the ABM Treaty and INF Treaty) has unleashed old arms racing dynamics and generated new ones, and it is far from clear how these can ...
Politicians, Militaries Approve Investment in New Defence Programmes
Prominent Western politicians have launched a global discussion about the risks associated with Russia developing hypersonic weapons. Arms control experts are attempting to estimate the potential of these new weapons, but attempts at this stage are hindered by the absence of important technical data and the lack of specialized terminology in this ...
... a new treaty, given the massive disagreements over the missile defense systems (after the United States pulled out from the ABM Treaty in 2002) and over long-range precision-guided conventional weapons. Meanwhile the new U.S. administration has not demonstrated ... ... particular interest in either concluding a new START Treaty or in prolonging the existing one until 2026.
The United States and Russia are on the verge of a new large-scale arms race. Unlike during the Cold War period, however, this nuclear arms race will ...
The exacerbation of tensions, mutual pressure and accusations have put a cornerstone Russia-U.S. agreement – the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty – on the brink of termination
For the first time during the Cold War, the parties agreed to eliminate entire classes of nuclear weapons that had been deployed in great numbers ...
... Tokyo and Moscow makes the Russian Federation particularly sensitive to such “increased involvement” of the Alliance in the Asia-Pacific region.
The U.S. Factor and the Issue of Missile Defense
The Missile Defense Agency
Ten years without ABM Treaty.
The issue of missile defense in
Russia-US relations.
The report
All of this testifies to the fact that the attitude of Russia towards NATO, and its relations with NATO, are largely a projection of Russian-American relations, which,
according to the Foreign Minister of the Russian ...
Working Paper №VII, 2013
The research is conducted in the framework of joint project of Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Atlantic Council (AC) on perspective of “mutual assured stability” model in Russia-U.S. strategic relations. The research was presented on Russian-US seminar “
Russia-U.S. relations: new impetus to ...
... to Russia now and in the foreseeable future? What are the possibilities of reaching military and political compromise on missile defense?
These issues are dealt with in this short version of the scientific paper entitled "Ten years without the ABM Treaty. The issue of missile defense in Russia-US relations" authored by experts from the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the research program of the Russian International Affairs Council.
Ten years without ABM Treaty. The issue of missile ...
