... unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) that Moscow and Washington, which was signed in 1972 and had served as a foundation of global strategic stability for 30 years. I remember well the tremendous efforts the Russian leadership poured into trying to keep the American side from taking such a step. President Vladimir Putin met several times with President George W. Bush, suggesting various options for preserving the Treaty.
The overwhelming majority of states ...
Perhaps the term “arms control” itself should be revised
Could the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty have been saved? No doubt. American and Russian experts have long discussed allegations of treaty violations in great detail, and there is no shortage of proposals on resolving compliance concerns and giving the treaty a new lease on life. Washington and Moscow are not likely to face any unprecedented ...
Reaffirming that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, the United States and Russia could agree to specific steps at Helsinki to reduce nuclear risks
Presidents Trump and Putin will finally meet next week in Helsinki for a bilateral summit. Throughout the Cold War, summits between US and Soviet leaders were overwhelmingly welcomed ...
... of the Cold War heritage is indispensable, preservation per se is clearly not sufficient to provide for strategic stability in a completely new global environment
In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, the enmity between the U.S. and Russia has reached new highs. However, the intense heat generated by the current Trump–Russia scandal as well as U.S.–Russia tensions over Ukraine and other hot spots risks blinding us to the fact that Russia–U.S. cooperation on nuclear arms control ...
How to achieve mutual U.S. – Russia reductions without reducing the margin of superiority over China and others?
Ilya Kramnik
has shown
that the equations of U.S. and Russian nuclear planning and interests not only do not converge on a potential for new reductions agreements, ...
Europe, the US, and Russia are confronting a range of significant issues today. The practical near-term steps that we have identified here are the right place to begin. We need to start now.
The chasm between Russia and the West appears to be wider now than at any point ...
... Russia, cooperation that unfortunately has almost come to a standstill. Communication between scientists and technical experts in U.S. and Russian nuclear complexes—which dates back to the 1980s—has been frozen. Bilateral forums, such as the U.S.-Russian Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Security Working Group, have been suspended. Differences, including those over Ukraine and the Middle East, have overshadowed nuclear cooperation, putting citizens of both of these nations at greater risk.
This report—developed jointly by the ...
... in the wake of the Ukraine and now Syria crises – and that the nuclear arms reductions agenda appears to have reached a standstill makes this challenge particularly pressing.
Andrew Futter will focus on emerging cyberthreats and challenges for nuclear security and give his opinion on Russia-US relations on the strategic issues.
Dr Andrew Futter is Associate Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, author of books and publications on nuclear strategy, non-proliferation and new challenges to nuclear order....
The threat of nuclear war between Russia and the West, long relegated to Cold War history, reappeared last year as the crisis in East-West relations escalated.
Russian strategic bombers now fly long-range patrols near the coast of the US and its NATO allies, while Russian missile tests ...
