..., and security.
Only a few months ago I was absolutely sure that after U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty nearly fifty years 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 be constrained. It is widely accepted that the arms control architecture that was developed at the end of the Cold War is ...
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 field.
The discussion of the threats posed by hypersonic weapons was triggered by...
... periodically bring the world to the brink of a nuclear Armageddon, whereas with arms control processes and regimes in place, this can be avoided.
In the years that followed, three fundamental treaties were signed: the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) in 1972 and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaties (SALT I and SALT II) in 1972 and 1979. A number of other agreements were also signed: the cornerstone 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT); the 1972 Convention ...
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 and had had a major significance for military planning.
U.S. Army Pershing II in Germany
In its current form the INF Treaty has long been an unfair arrangement since only...
The official opening of a ballistic missile defence base in Romania was among the top news stories last week news on the worsening Russia–America “partnership.”
To be precise, the Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defence System was “certified” at the US Naval base in Deveselu on May 12, and it is now officially operation-ready
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. Construction was actually completed a year ago, in May 2015 (having lasted 18 months), with the time in between being used to test Aegis...
... for the progress of NATO-Russia relations, especially at a time of acute shortage of attention to Russia on the part of the United States.
However, the centripetal force did not last long and soon began to lose momentum. The U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, the invasion of Iraq, the “great expansion” of NATO, the color revolutions in the CIS countries, the clash of positions on Kosovo and the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe – all this demonstrated to Russia that ...
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 cooperation
”, March 25, 2013.
Authors
:
S.M. Rogov (Lead Author), Academician, RAS, Dr. of History; V.I. Esin, Ph.D. in Military Science, retired Colonel General;...
Armed Conflict and War in a Hundred Years’ Time
The history of international relations is a history of wars. At the beginning of the 21st century, armed conflicts and wars continue to remain an important element of international interaction. Changing in character, they are unlikely to be consigned to history this century, as some researchers predicted at the sunset of bipolar confrontation. In this regard, it is important to understand the development trends and patterns of armed conflicts and...
... 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 ...
