Regensburg 2007 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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AKA: Arbeitskreis Physik und Abrüstung

AKA 2: Nuklearwaffenentwicklungen

AKA 2.2: Hauptvortrag

Donnerstag, 29. März 2007, 10:30–11:30, H45

The Modernization of the Russian Strategic Forces and the Future of the US-Russian Arms Control — •Eugene Miasnikov — The Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

The bilateral U.S.-Russian strategic arms control dialog was at its peak at the end of the Cold War, when the very successful Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) and Strategic Arms Reduction (START) Treaties were succeeded. Unfortunately, it is almost non-existent these days. With the end of START in 2009, an important verification mechanism, that currently provides transparency of U.S. and Russian strategic forces and their activities, might be lost, if the sides fail to work out a replacement for it. At the same time the role of transparent nuclear arms reductions by nuclear states is growing for the future of the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime, and this factor should stimulate U.S. and Russia to renew the strategic arms control dialog.

The talk focuses on modern trends in the evolution of U.S. and Russian nuclear forces and doctrines of their implementation as well as on the impact of these tendencies on attitudes toward arms control. A framework of a new bilateral strategic arms reduction agreement that might replace START and enforce Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) is proposed.