... ambitions modernization programs, and some even plan to increase numbers of nuclear warheads, which raises doubts about their commitment to Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and encourages potential proliferators to continue attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. Moreover, strategic arms control per se is in a deep crisis: the United States walked out of the ABM and INF agreements, while Russia suspended its participation to the New START that in any case expires in the beginning of 2026. It is not at all clear whether the strategic ...
Working Paper No. 68/2022
Working Paper No. 68/2022
The first atomic bomb was designed almost eight decades ago. Since then, the nuclear factor has become one of the game-changers in international relations. The possession of nuclear weapons has become especially important in modern times, as discussions of the fatal destructiveness the use of atomic weapons for all mankind have reintensified. There is increasing speculation on this topic in the international arena. Nevertheless,...
... ultra-reliable unmanned missile system. Later, the interest in such a system dwindled, and February 1971 saw the signing of the Seabed Arms Control Treaty that prohibited the deployment of any such systems outside territorial waters.
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The Martin ... ..., we will be talking about “creative endeavors” of the Navy and the Air Forces, the two principal operators of strategic nuclear weapons both in the United States and the Soviet Union—the USSR, though, also had a separate service branch known as ...
... the fate of other treaties, including the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)? Can we say there is a real threat that the “new nuclear club” might expand further?
There is definitely ... ... back into that deal would already be a very important step towards preserving this most important fundamental treaty on nuclear arms control.
That is, the fate of the NPT depends on whether the Americans can get back into the Iranian deal?
Yes, because ...
... regional scale.
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This concept is often called "escalate to de-escalate:” selective intimidating use of nuclear weapons to prevent the opponent from achieving success in a conventional conflict. Hence the nuclear revanchists are striving to make nuclear weapons more usable, while the revisionists call for discarding traditional methods of arms control in favor of entirely new ways of enhancing nuclear deterrence and forging a new concept of strategic stability.
The Realities of Arms and Arms Control
All possible dangers and uncertainties notwithstanding, rational strategic analysis should ...
... tone of the emerging discussion is determined by extravagant ideas that sooner testify to the intellectually uninhibited style of their authors than to their sense of responsibility. Some claim that a nuclear war is not so horrible after all and that nuclear weapons do not differ in principle from conventional arms. Others say that to revive nuclear arms control the human race needs to go through a disaster comparable to the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
The calls for an immediate transition to a multilateral model of nuclear arms control are not very impressive, either. Needless to say, ...
... discuss and search for solutions to topical issues in the area of non-proliferation, control, deterrence, and safety of the use of nuclear weapons.
The keynote speakers at the conference were Stephen Biegun, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea; Adam ... ... Congressman, Chairman, U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee; and Andrea Thompson, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
The conference included several discussions on current issues of nuclear security, arms ...
... Cooperation» with Ernest J. Moniz, Co-Chair and Chief Executive Officer, NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative, nonprofit organization), Former U.S. Secretary of Energy.
The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting: nuclear non-proliferation and arms control, the consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from the Iranian deal, the situation on the Korean Peninsula, and the possibilities of scientific and technical cooperation between Russia and the United States in the nuclear sphere.
The discussion ...
