By Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is Senior Research...
and arms control negotiators should examine the Russian nuclear doctrine and policy as they are, not as they want them to be.Russia is boosting the role of nuclear weapons in its national security strategy and doctrine. The Kremlin’s nuclear doctrine considers the United States its “principal adversary.” Russia will increasingly rely on nuclear weapons, including first-use use in local conflicts, such as with Georgia last year. This is what Russia’s National Security Council Secretary, General Nikolay Patrushev recently announced.
Moreover, Russia has 3,800 tactical nukes, which were not included in the follow-on treaty. And in the recent military maneuvers in Belarus, the Russian Army simulated an invasion of Poland — with 900 tanks and fired three nuclear missiles at the “enemy.”
And Russia’s military-industrial complex is busy developing high-precision and low-yield deep-penetration nuclear weapons. Yet
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