Center for Security Studies

No. 53: Nuclear Disarmament: US and Russia Resume Negotiations

No. 53: Nuclear Disarmament: US and Russia Resume Negotiations

Author(s): Oliver Thränert
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 53
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2009

Nuclear disarmament is back on the international agenda. On 24 April 2009, US and Russian delegations began negotiations in Rome with the aim of further reducing their strategic nuclear arsenals. As a first step, the START I Treaty, which will expire on 5 December 2009, should be replaced with a new agreement. Due to the narrow timeframe, this new arrangement can be expected to be rather limited. However, if more substantial measures are to follow, a whole range of stumbling blocks will have to be removed. The nuclear weapons-free world envisaged by US President Obama is bound to remain a vision.

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