... crews "created conditions, which impede, if not block, our ability to conduct inspections on the US territory."
Currently, the situation is not conducive for setting a new date for a session of the Bilateral Consultative Commission on New START, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said earlier in the month.
Moscow and Washington inked the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) in 2010. The document stipulates that seven years after its entry into force, each party should have ...
... significant, relations among nuclear powers are very far from being well-tempered. The situation is heavily overshadowed by disintegration of the arms control architecture, mostly due to the destructive course of the previous U.S. Administration. The New START Treaty is practically the last surviving pillar.
Active diplomacy has provided some glimpse of hope earlier in 2021. The understandings reached by the Presidents of Russia and the U.S. opened a window of opportunity for constructive interaction of two major stewards of nuclear arsenals.
First, the two leaders agreed to extend the New START. They also reconfirmed in a Joint Statement the principle that nuclear war ...
... predecessors, they can yet find ways forward that make everyone safer.
Alexander Savelyev, D.Sc. (Political Sciences), Chief Research Fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); START I negotiator
When START I was signed and entered into force, this symbolized the conclusion of the nuclear arms race and “set off” a reverse process of reducing the accumulated nuclear arsenals.
In its scope of strategic nuclear arms control ...
... nuclear catastrophe.
Fortunately, the above-described scenario for the development of events in the field of nuclear arms control has not been implemented.
US President Joe Biden, almost immediately after taking office, made a decision to extend the New START Treaty for five years practically on Russian terms, i.e. in the form in which it was signed in 2010. The only reason the Americans conditioned the extension of the Treaty was the start of negotiations on the next agreement in the field of nuclear weapons, during which, obviously, all the ...
... administration’s top envoy on arms control.
He said several times during the forum that the Kremlin has been pushing the White House on an extension of its terms but has not received a formal answer.
“The whole world depends on the United States-Russia relationship.”
On START, he added, “we need time to work out new security agreements” that cover a range of issues from missile defense, intermediate-range missiles, hypersonics and potential space weapons. For this reason, Russia has offered to extend the treaty’s ...
