Search: Russia,Nuclear weapons (99 materials)

 

The Ukrainian Crisis and Strategic Stability

... Jackson J. Nuclear weapons threat increases as Putin grows more desperate. Newsweek , April 15, 2022. https://www.Newsweek.com/nuclear-weapons-threat-increases-putin-grows-more-desperate-1698630 (accessed May 25, 2022). 31 . Bugos Sh. Putin orders Russian nuclear weapons on higher alert. Arms Control Today , March 2022. https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-03/news/putin-orders-russian-nuclear-weapons-higher-alert (accessed May 25, 2022); Alberque W., Hoffmann F. Three scenarios for nuclear risk over ...

18.07.2022

Special Warheads and the Special Military Operation

... “met” quite unexpectedly for all parties. It should be specifically noted that all nuclear powers are interested in preventing such a scenario. After all, Russia’s military and political leadership unequivocally stated that it is impossible to use nuclear weapons in any conflict that endangers Russia’s territorial integrity, but not the existence of Russia itself: “ you cannot use a nuclear bomb in every conflict .” Of course, many things change, but I dare suggest that the choice between “being kicked into the minor league” and a ...

06.07.2022

NATO Not Taking Nuclear War Threat Seriously

... military nuclear capabilities," Antonov said. "In the same vein — statements made by Polish leaders about their readiness to deploy American nuclear weapons on their territory. And some hotheads on Capitol Hill even allege to call to use nuclear weapons against Russia." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied that his statements disparaging the 1994 Budapest Memorandum constituted a call for developing nuclear weapons. The deal, reached three years after Ukraine declared its independence, launched ...

06.05.2022

Russia and Turkey: State and Prospects of Energy Cooperation

Working Paper No. 63 Working Paper No. 63 Cooperation in the energy sector is one of the most important facets of Russian foreign policy. Interaction in this area helps to develop mutually beneficial trade relations and ensure the energy security of Russia and its partners. Energy cooperation between Russia and Turkey has been comprehensive and strategic in recent ...

16.03.2022

Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group Supports Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States Affirming: “A Nuclear War Cannot be Won and Must Never be Fought”

... statement : “We welcome the leadership shown by the leaders of The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America in their January ... ... technologies reduce decision time for leaders. Such a principle is also at the core of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) whose Preamble recognizes “the devastation that would be visited upon all mankind by a nuclear war and ...

14.01.2022

The Nuclear Triad: Alternatives from the Days Gone By

... could have forced the government into decommissioning all nuclear weapons in the country once the Cold War ended. [25] — Had the Cuban Missile Crisis never happened and had the American administration retained its interest in proliferating U.S.-made nuclear weapons among its allies, then Russia’ы Foreign Ministry would now be ranting about NATO Joint Nuclear Missions being a group of allied ships with nuclear missiles onboard making occasional patrol missions rather than a hundred tactical aviation bombs that essentially make no sense ...

03.09.2021

The revolutionary START Turns 30: Assessments and Prospects

... of extremely complex documents that make up this treaty. START I was developed as a bilateral Soviet–American treaty but it became a multilateral instrument following the collapse of the USSR: Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine acceded to the current Russian–American treaty and committed to eliminating nuclear weapons on their territories to accede to the NPT as non-nuclear states. To a certain degree, the Treaty’s key achievement lies not solely in asserting arms control but in ensuring that all subsequent treaties resulted in progressively greater ...

02.08.2021

The Ten Aporias of Our Time. The Theory and Practice of Nuclear Deterrence

... was clearly manifested in the policy of the United States. This was vividly manifested in Trump’s 2018 nuclear doctrine: “Recent Russian statements on the development of nuclear doctrine appear to lower the threshold for Moscow’s first-use of nuclear weapons. Russia demonstrates its perception of the advantage these systems provide through numerous exercises and statements. Correcting this mistaken Russian perception is a strategic imperative” [ 36 ]. This is not a mere declaration, since this concept rests ...

26.07.2021

Advancing Strategic Stability in the Euro-Atlantic Region, 2021 and Beyond

... be focused on addressing concerns generated by day-to-day military events and activities, not political or strategic issues. Step 3: 1,400 in 2021. With New START extended for five years, Washington and Moscow should commit to further reduce U.S. and Russian deployed strategic nuclear weapons while working urgently to establish the mandate for and scope of a successor agreement to New START. As a first step, given that both nations have declared their deployed strategic warheads to be well under the New START limit of 1,550 ...

07.06.2021
 

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