scholarly journals Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control

2022 ◽  
pp. 197-213
Keyword(s):  
Arms Control ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament

Some Thoughts on the Logic of Strategic Arms Control: Three Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Dunn ◽  
Andrey Baklitskiy ◽  
Tong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Arms Control ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Lewis A

Who are the proponents of strategic arms control? Why do they advocate it? What are their major assumptions? What are the important uncertainties of arms control? What is the relationship between strategic arms control and nuclear disarmament and nuclear deterrence? This paper, the fifth in UNIDIR’s nuclear dialogue series, explores these questions building on the perspectives of US, Chinese and Russian experts—Lewis A. Dunn, Andrey Baklitskiy and Tong Zhao—and drawing in the views of diverse and informed participants in UNIDIR’s Dialogue on Nuclear Disarmament, Deterrence and Strategic Arms Control.

scholarly journals Triangularity of nuclear arms control: Possible implications of China's involvement in nuclear arms talks

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Alexander Savelyev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Nuclear Arsenal ◽  
Working Hypothesis ◽  
Nuclear Arms Control ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Nuclear Arms

Beijing explains its firm unwillingness to join the United States and Russia in nuclear arms control talks by the fact that China’s nuclear arsenal is incomparable with respective potentials of the world’s two leading nuclear powers. China urges Russia and the U.S. to go ahead with the nuclear disarmament process on a bilateral basis, and promises it will be prepared to consider the possibility of its participation in the negotiations only when its counterparts have downgraded their arsenals approximately to China’s level. Washington finds this totally unacceptable and demands that China either join the existing Russian-U.S. strategic New START treaty right away or agree to enter into a trilateral nuclear arms control format. This article studies the prospects of China’s involvement in nuclear arms talks and analyzes the true reasons behind Beijing’s desire to avoid any nuclear disarmament deals at this point. The working hypothesis of this paper is that China’s stance on the above issue is by no means far-fetched or propagandistic, and that it is driven by fundamental political, military and strategic considerations. Disregard for this factor and further forceful efforts to bring China to the negotiating table to discuss nuclear arms control will lead to failure.

scholarly journals Deconstructing the Struggle Against Nuclearism

2022 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Richard A. Falk
Keyword(s):  
Global Stability ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Nuclear Age

In such a complex and uncertain world, it may help to think like a Hindu, and accept contradiction as more in keeping with social and political reality than is finding a right answer to complex policy puzzles. What is almost impossible for those trained within Western frames of reference is to grasp that there are diverse perspectives of understanding that may result in seemingly contradictory recommendations despite shared values and goals. Civilizational perspectives and personal experience inevitably color what we feel, think, and do, and so being likeminded when it comes abolishing nuclear weapons is often coupled with somewhat divergent views on what to advocate when it comes to tactics and priorities. In this spirit, this paper tries to depict a set of reasons why the goal of nuclear disarmament will never be reached so long as arms control and nonproliferation of nuclear weaponry are seen as the pillars of global stability in the nuclear age.

scholarly journals Is Zero Disarmament Possible? Multilateralism and Nuclear Arms Control Treaties

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Sean Morris
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Nuclear Nonproliferation ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Nuclear Forces ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Nuclear Arms Control ◽  
Policy Prescription

This article concerns two Cold War treaties on nuclear nonproliferation and arms control and whether the success of one treaty can be instrumental in leading to the reduction of nuclear weapons. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) have been essential to world peace. Although it might be impossible to envisage a world free of nuclear weapons, the post-Cold War nuclear posture requires multilateral engagement to prevent the further spread of nuclear weapons technology and treaties such as the NPT can be amended to include the INF treaty and therefore lead to further nuclear disarmament. This is because the NPT treaty has been granted indefinite extension and the INF treaty has been one of the success stories in nuclear disarmament and that success should be further built upon. The paper is not an exhaustive discussion of the nuclear treaties regime—rather the arguments and policy prescription in the paper are illustrative.

scholarly journals Changes in China's Nuclear Policy, Possible US Response and Implications for Arms Control

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Alexey Stepanov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The People ◽  
Nuclear Policy ◽  
The Us

In his presentation, the author discusses the events that occurred in the summer and fall of 2021, which may have an impact on the nuclear policy of the People's Republic of China and generate a response from the United States and consequences for arms control. The paper considers the discovery of new silo fields in China and the supposed test the PRC of a fractional orbital bombardment system with a hypersonic glide vehicle by the PRC. The speaker concludes that these changes are largely a consequence of the US nuclear policy and are likely to provoke a new round of the arms race and have a negative impact on the prospects for nuclear disarmament.

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