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Podvig: Russia will say that it was U.S. intent from the very beginning to pull out of the INF treaty

(TIME) President Donald Trump revealed Saturday the United States intends to withdraw from a 31-year-old nuclear weapons agreement with Russia, delivering a severe blow to the arms control regime that helped…

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Podvig: Russian efforts to develop hypersonic glide vehicles are explicitly aimed at evading U.S. missile defense systems

Warnings of a Russian hypersonic weapon that the U.S. can’t defend against may have had you running for the bomb shelter last week. But what, exactly, is this weapon, and…

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Denuclearization Again? Lessons from Ukraine’s Decision to Disarm

(War on the Rocks) (Co-authored with Mariana Budjeryn) On Dec. 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation and handed off his nuclear strike authorization unit, the so-called Cheget briefcase, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin.…

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Podvig: Rogozin confirmed that missiles (with nuclear warheads) were on the Russian submarine that caught fire in 2011

(Popular Mechanics) Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has admitted that a December 2011 incident involving a nuclear missile submarine almost became one of the worst nuclear weapons disasters ever recorded.…

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Podvig: Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review got the basic Russian strategy wrong

(Defense News) When it comes to Russia, the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) pulls no punches. Moscow’s military, specifically its modernized nuclear forces, are featured significantly throughout the report.…

How Russia’s Nuclear Buildup Offers a Good Opportunity for Renewed Arms Control Dialogue

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russian President Vladimir Putin said in 2015 that he viewed the United States as seeking “to destroy strategic balance, to change the balance of power in such a…

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Revisionist Russia Is the Most Nuclearized Power in the World

(EDM) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared at last week’s (January 18) special meeting of the United Nations Security Council that Russia had no intention of joining the Treaty on the…

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Production of new highly enriched uranium in Russia for the FRM-II in Germany

(IPFM blog) (Co-authored with A. Glaser) The Forschungsreaktor München II (FRM-II) has been using Russian-origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) for many years. It has now become clear that since 2012 Russia…

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A Carrot-and-Stick Approach to Resolve the INF Treaty Crisis

(ELN) (Co-authored with Miles Pomper) Few in Washington express much doubt that Russia recently violated the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, testing and deploying ground-launched cruise missiles within the treaty’s prohibited…

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Podvig: Sending actual rocket engines to North Korea would be a very difficult thing to pull off, whether in Russia or Ukraine

(SN) In the days that followed Monday’s report in The New York Times that North Korea may have illicitly procured advanced Soviet-era rocket engines from Ukraine, the response out of the post-Soviet nation…

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Nuclear Arms

Podvig: Russia will say that it was U.S. intent from the very beginning to pull out of the INF treaty

Podvig: Russian efforts to develop hypersonic glide vehicles are explicitly aimed at evading U.S. missile defense systems

Denuclearization Again? Lessons from Ukraine’s Decision to Disarm

Podvig: Rogozin confirmed that missiles (with nuclear warheads) were on the Russian submarine that caught fire in 2011

Podvig: Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review got the basic Russian strategy wrong

How Russia’s Nuclear Buildup Offers a Good Opportunity for Renewed Arms Control Dialogue

Revisionist Russia Is the Most Nuclearized Power in the World

Production of new highly enriched uranium in Russia for the FRM-II in Germany

A Carrot-and-Stick Approach to Resolve the INF Treaty Crisis

Podvig: Sending actual rocket engines to North Korea would be a very difficult thing to pull off, whether in Russia or Ukraine