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In the aftermath of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), its Chair Ambassador Adam Bugajski of the Republic of Poland gave an exclusive interview to the Yaderny Kontrol bulletin ...
Some time ago the U.S. administration, including their former President Barack Obama, has voiced more and more often the idea that it would be desirable to continue strategic offensive reductions. There are several reasons why the United States are so interested in intensifying nuclear arms reduct...
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Origins of the notion
It should be underlined that the concept of “strategic stability” was born in the late 1980s in the context of START-I negotiations to serve as a foundation of deep strategic arms reductions. In this role, it was designed to replace an amorphous and subjective notion of “equal...
Four principles of strategic stability
It is possible, at least conceptually, to sketch out a set of broad principles for U.S-Russian strategic stability – those principles are rooted in Cold War legacies but need to be adapted, revisited, and broadened in light of changing strategic capabilities a...
_2020~1.PDF On April 24, 2018 the Director of the Foreign Ministry Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament and the Head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Yermakov presented a statment in Geneva during the Second session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Process.
There is lecture by Hans Blix including Q&A session
There are four blocks of issues that Ms Nakamitsu highlighted in her lecture for the Dual Degree master's program's students: «Why Disarmament today?», «Disarmament that can actually safe lives», Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, «Frontier issues coming to our front door»
Due to the impending fear of a chemical or biological weapons attack from a non-state actor, the Russian Federation proposed an initiative for the International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Chemical and Biological Terrorism. In particular, the concern is with the increased risk of indust...