Disarmament and Nuclear Non-Proliferation

NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

School of World Economy and International Affairs

Foreign Languages Department

Disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation

Dmitry M. Kuritsyn

group 429

Academic Advisors

Prof. Maxim V. Braterkiy, PhD

Prof. Elena V. Anashkina, PhD

MOSCOW 2013

Contents

Introduction…………………………………………………………………3

1. Historical background ……………………………………………….5

1. Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I)…………………5

1. New non-proliferation agreement……………………………………6

1. New START ………………………………………………….7
2. The future of disarmament ……………………………………10

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………..11

References…………………………………………………………………...13

Introduction

The complexities in implementation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, which includes nuclear disarmament as one of the principle integral parts, have always been the issue in difficult and controversial discussions attended by all members of international community.

Nuclear disarmament, which has eventually become the safeguard and a key condition of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime’s successful performance, have always been an effective factor reducing the risk of unleashing a nuclear war and reinforcing the confidence of nuclear-free countries that the threat to their security is contained. The logic of nuclear disarmament is to curtail the lethal nuclear arms race and to provide for better predictability and transparency in this field. The aforementioned factors altogether enable defining the nuclear disarmament as the process crucial to global strategic stability.

The nuclear factor within the current political environment, which represents a sophisticated tangle of different political processes and tendencies in development of international relations, plays an utmost important role, since the global community more than ever strives for transparency, predictability and stability in international situation. The issue of nuclear disarmament is deemed to be especially essential and acute against the backdrop of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime’s crisis.

The outcome of the bilateral dialogue should be of vital importance to Russia, because its nuclear strength, besides being so far the only area, where it is equally competitive to the United States, is yet the warranty of national security. The New START Treaty has sparked numerous discussions and controversial judgments from both Russian and overseas experts. It means that even today it’s far from obvious whether the changes in the US approach towards the disarmament may bring about any considerable benefits or will be yet another attempts of the United States to draw the encouragement of the global community and to raise the profile of the US that suffered a significant downfall during the tenure of George Bush Jr. Anyway the progress in the dialogue shall be quite significant for both the future of Russian-US relations alone and global strategic stability together with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime performance.