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来源类型 | Policy Outlook |
规范类型 | 54 |
The New Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms: One Step in the Right Direction | |
Vladimir Dvorkin; Alexey Arbatov | |
发表日期 | 2010-08-11 |
出版年 | 2010 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The signing of the New START in April 2010 was a major step forward in building a legally binding, verifiable strategic arms reduction framework, but more action is necessary to overcome persistent mutual mistrust and bureaucratic obstacles hampering further force reductions. |
正文 | The signing of a new U.S.-Russian Treaty on strategic nuclear arms (New START) in April 2010, in Prague, is a major step forward in building a legally binding, verifiable strategic arms reduction framework after the almost 20-year pause in progress that followed the signing of the START-1 Treaty in 1991. The new Treaty is critically important from a political and military-strategic point of view, ending the protracted standstill in strategic dialogue between the two nuclear superpowers while evincing their improved political relations and ability to reach compromises on complicated issues.
Arbatov and Dvorkin note that, “over the coming years it looks likely that the search for an agreement on missile defense and other related issues will be more important than further cuts of offensive strategic nuclear forces.” More intensive cooperation is hampered by persistent mutual mistrust and bureaucratic obstacles. The best way to overcome these barriers would be to restore the elements of cooperation lost over previous years. “Urgent steps should be taken to reanimate the project of a Joint Data Exchange Center on missile and space launches, which the two parties agreed to set up 12 years ago now. It is also important to resume the interrupted series of joint computer exercises involving Russia, the U.S., and NATO on theater missile defense, subsequently expanding these exercises to test grounds and taking them beyond just theater defense.” The two authors argue that “these steps will not only help to avoid a new missile defence crisis very likely by the end of the decade, and another deadlock in strategic arms control, but at the same time will also help to transform the relations of mutual nuclear deterrence into a more constructive form of strategic interaction.” |
主题 | Nonproliferation ; Hybrid War: Russia vs. the West |
URL | https://carnegie.ru/2010/08/11/new-treaty-on-strategic-offensive-arms-one-step-in-right-direction-pub-41369 |
来源智库 | Carnegie Moscow Center (Russia) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/428109 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Vladimir Dvorkin,Alexey Arbatov. The New Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms: One Step in the Right Direction. 2010. |
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