MAD's Midlife Crisis: The Impact of US-Russia Rivalry on International Arms Control

... their own agenda, ignoring the position of the dissenting states.” Andrey Kortunov: Shaken, Not Stirred: Blending an INF/New Start Detox Cocktail As a result, the 2015 NPT RevCon showed at a glance the main contradictions of this regime. On the one hand, Russia and the United States, as the major nuclear states, unanimously opposed any deadlines for nuclear disarmament as well as the initiative to convene a Conference on a comprehensive nuclear-weapons ban. The US and Russia are also ...