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American efforts to develop Prompt Global Strike systems have caught the attention of Russian leaders and experts for some time. Amidst deteriorating Russia-US relations, these efforts are perceived rather warily by the Russian side and often treated as a threat to the strategic stability and national security of Russia. To find out if these concerns are justified, we must look closely into the matter.
The emergence of the concept
The US military idea of Prompt...
... Prompt Global Strike means the beginning of a new round of arms race between the U.S. and Russia?
Does the development of Conventional Prompt Global Strike means the beginning of a new round of arms race between the U.S. and Russia?
Alexander Saveliev
... ... reason for serious concerns about the strategic offensive arms in non-nuclear configuration
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James Acton, Garnegie Foundation, USA
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A U.S.-Russian arms race in strategic conventional weapons is an unfortunate possibility—but it is not an inevitability
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... leaders or disrupting terrorist operations. But again, I emphasize that no decision has yet been made about which missions the Conventional Prompt Global Strike would be used for. And those are all possibilities that are floating around.
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James M.... ... exists and that it has been used against one of the countries you’ve mentioned. What international ramifications could the usage of the CPGS have?
I think it would depend a lot on the crisis. You know, if it were perceived as a situation in which the ...
