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Assessing Deep Reductions in U.s. and Russian Nuclear Weapons

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Micah Zenko is a fellow for conflict prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations. Klappentext In 2009, presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev pledged to sign a bilateral treaty to limit the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia to approximately 1,500 deployed nuclear weapons and 750 delivery systems. While this represents a significant reduction from cold war?era levels, the two countries still retain more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. As good-faith progress toward President Obama's stated commitment "to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," both countries need to begin negotiating a follow-up bilateral treaty to reduce their respective arsenals. Micah Zenko offers specific recommendations for U.S. policy on four strategic and technical issues that such a treaty would raise: - Beginning high-level discussions with U.S. allies on the tradeoffs between extended deterrence and deeper nuclear cuts- Promoting the joint U.S.-Russia development of missile defense radar and interceptors- Proposing transparency and confidence-building measures for deployed U.S. and Russian tactical nuclear weapons- Developing a framework to account for deploying advanced conventional weapons on nuclear-capable delivery systems.At a time of global nuclear uncertainty, this report defines a path to greater security and commitment to a nonnuclear world.

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Authors Micah Zenko
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2010
 
EAN 9780876094822
ISBN 978-0-87609-482-2
No. of pages 56
Series Council Special Report
Council Special Report
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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