Chronology
PIR PRESS NEWS
The Security Index Occasional Paper Series came out with the new report "Future of arms control: views from Russia" that consists of two articles: “U.S.-Russia arms control: where we are and where we are going” by Evgeny Buzhinskiy and “Broadening the scope of arms control: new strategic systems, “non strategic” arsenals, conventional long-range precision strike, hypersonic missiles, missile defense and space capabilities” by Dmitry Stefanovich.
On January 19, 2021, Dr. Vladimir A. Orlov, Director of the PIR Center, gave an interview to the Security Index journal. He shared his views on the great potential of the Russian-US cooperation in the framework of the NPT, threats of nuclear proliferation, suggesting how to make the P5 framework practically useful, and what is the role of China, the United Kingdom and India in the nonproliferation regime.
PIR Center experts Vladimir Orlov and Sergey Semenov discuss the prospects for the Russian-American dialogue on arms control.
No. 13 (2000): Cooperative Threat Reduction Program: Evaluation and Outlook (In Russian).
The authors analyze the main components of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program (CTR): elimination of strategic offensive weapons, including disposal of nuclear powered submarines; control, registration and physical protection of nuclear weapons; and elimination of chemical weapons stockpiles and production facilities. The publication also discusses the cooperation between the Russian State Customs Committee and the U.S. Department of Energy under the program Second Line of Defense.