Publications of 1996-97 on START 2 Treaty Related Issues

START 2: Opinions

• NATO and Nuclear Weapons, (by Alla Yaroshinskaya, NVO-NG, December 24, 1997, p.5).

• Russia: Arms Treaty Talks Premature (Associated Press, December 8, 1997);

• START II Approval Imperiled, Russian Says (by David Hoffman, The Washington Post, December 7, 1997; Page A34)

• Russia Won't Ratify START II Soon (Associated Press, December 4, 1997)

• START II Ratification and Related Issues, Moscow START II Trip Report, November 19-22, 1997 (by Rodney W. Jones). See also a paper START 2 and 3: Through the Eye of the Needle, An American Perspective on Treaties and the Russian-American Security Relationship (by Rodney W. Jones), at the same page. December's issue of Yadernoye Rasprostraneniye (N 21, 1997) has publshed full texts of presentattions by Alexei Arbatov (State Duma), Senator Richard Lugar (US Senate), Anton Vasilyev (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Gennady Khromov at the seminar.

• Russia Overdue to Approve START-2 (Chicago Tribune, November 18, 1997).

• Tendencies of Nuclear Disarmament. Disadvantages of START-1 and START-2 Treaties. In Nuclear Arms Reduction. The Process and Problems - in Russian/ Ed. by A.S. Diakov, The Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, 1997.

• Military Reform: The Threat to National Security (Ed. by G.A. Zyuganov). Published in a supplement to the analytical magazine Obozrevatel - Observer. Excerpts are printed in Yadernoye Rasprostraneniye (Issue 19, September 1997, pp. 44-64).

• START 2: The Shifts Are Made, One Should Not Linger. (by G. Obolenskii, Krasnaya Zvezda,  October 21, 1997, p.3).

• After Helsinki, the Hard Work (by Rodney W. Jones and Nikolai N. Sokov, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,, July/August 1997, pp. 26-30).

• START 2 Treaty. Problems and Judgments. (by Lev Volkov and Gennadi Voronin, Military Parade, July-August, 1997, pp. 70-72)

• START II and START III Issues in Russia (by Rodney W. Jones, July 22, 1997)

• The Future of U.S. Nuclear Deterrence, The summary of the Center for Security Polycy's high level roundtable discussion, July 15, 1997, Washington D.C.

• The Dead START (by James Morrison, The Washington Times, July 4, 1997).

• Strategic Arms Control -- Moment of Decision? The Summary From a Carnegie Endowment Seminar held on June 11, 1997.

• One Can Ratify START 2 after Signing a START 3 Frame Agreement Only  - interview with Lev Rokhlin and Alexei Arbatov - in Russian (Yadernyy Control, # 30-31, June-July,1997, pp. 8-16).

• Yeltsin Slow to Move On START II Trearty (by David Hoffman, The Washington Post, May 29, 1997, p.A28).

• Why International Problems Are Solved Without Russia More and More Often? (by Alexei Arbatov, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, May 23, 1997, p. 4).

• START II Ratification and Related Issues, Moscow START II Trip Report, May 18-24, 1997 (by Rodney W. Jones)

• Nuclear Deterrence and START-2 (by Vladimir Dvorkin, NG-NVO, # 3, 1997, p. 4).

• Degradation of Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (by Yurii Maslyukov, NG-NVO, # 2, 1997).

Publications of 1993-1995 can be found in the Bibliography of the paper  Future of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces: Discussions and Arguments (by Eugene Miasnikov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, Dolgoprudny, 1995)

Practical Steps Toward START 3 and Deeper Cuts of Nuclear Arsenals

• The U.S.-Russian Strategic Arms Control Agenda, (by Jack Mendelsohn Arms Control Today,  November/December 1997, Volume 27, Number 8)

• Preventing Deadly Conflict (Final Report, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, Carnegie Corporation of New York)

• Mutually Assured Destruction Revisited Strategic Doctrine in Question, Col Alan J. Parrington, USAF, Airpower Journal, Winter 1997

• Return to Nuclear Free World is Necessary - in Russian (by Robert McNamara, NG-NVO, # 42, November 14-20,1997, p.1).

• Further Cuts of Russian and U.S. Strategic Forces. In Nuclear Arms Reduction. The Process and Problems - in Russian/ Ed. by A.S. Diakov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, 1997.

• The Evolving U.S.-Russian Cooperative Nuclear Security Relationship (by Kenneth Luongo, paper presented at the USPID - VII International Castiglioncello Conference on Nuclear and Conventional Disarmament: Progress or Stalemate?), September 25-28, 1997.

• Steps Towards a Nuclear Weapons Free-World: the Transition to a Multilateral Regime (Cathleen S. Fisher, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington D.C., paper presented at the USPID - VII International Castiglioncello Conference on Nuclear and Conventional Disarmament: Progress or Stalemate?), September 25-28, 1997.

• Summary of Proceedings of a seminar on START II and III, TMD Demarcation, and  Next Steps with Russia (September 8, 1997, Washington D.C.)

• Transcript of a panel on  Reducing Nuclear Arms or Eliminationg Them? at the Conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Enhancing the Tools of the Trade, June 9-10, 1997, Washington, D.C.

• Strengthening the Norm of Non-Proliferation: Next Steps for the Nuclear Powers - Which are Most Important? (by Alexei G. Arbatov at the Conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Enhancing the Tools of the Trade, June 9-10, 1997, Washington, D.C.)

• Paring Down the Arsenal (by Frank von Hippel, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, May/June 1997, p. 33-40).

• Caging the Nuclear Genie: an American Challenge for Global Security. (by Stansfield Turner. Westview Press, Boulder, Colo., 1997).

• The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy Press, 1997.

• Ending the Threat of Nuclear Attack, (by James E. Goodby and Harold Feiveson, The Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford), May 1997.

• An American Legacy: Building a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World  (Final Report of the Steering Committee Project on Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction, The Henry L. Stimson Center), March 1997.

• Generals Speak out on Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Butler, Goodpaster, Horner.

• Nuclear Deterrence and START 3 (by Vladimir Belous, NG-NVO, # 15, April 19-25, 1997, p. 1).

• It Is Time to Begin Preparing START 3 (by Mikhail Vinogradov and Radii Zubkov, NG-NVO, # 9, March 7-14, 1997).

• Next START by CART. Breaking the Disarmament Deadlock (by Oliver Meier and Otfried Nassauer, INESAP Information Bulletin, #12, March 1997, pp. 4-6).

• A Blueprint for Deep Cuts in Nuclear Weapons (by Harold Feiveson, INESAP Information Bulletin, #12, March 1997, pp. 7-9).

• REPORT of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

• The Future of Nuclear Disarmament (by Sergei Kortunov, NG-NVO, April 25, 1996, p. 4).

• Russia is Ready for START III (by Joshua Handler, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, January/February 1996, p.11-12).

• On Providing the Ground for Criteria of Unacceptable Nuclear Damage To Ensure Nuclear Deterrence, by Petr Romashkin, Yadernoye Rasprostraneniye, December, 1997, Issue 21, pp. 47-53

• Strategic Deterrence in Current Situation, (by V. Antonov,  Morskoy Sbornik, # 11, 1997, pp. 13-16).

• Nuclear Weapons in the Eve of XXI-st Century - in Russian (by V.S. Belous, Obozrevatel-Observer , # 12, 1997, pp.  39-44).

• Russia Considering Increased Nuclear Dependence (by Walter Pincus, The Washington Post, December 7, 1997; Page A11)

• Nuclear Deterrence: a Bluff or a Factor of Stability? Russia's Defense Strategy Is at a Crossroads. (by Dmitry Yefstafyev, Interfax-AIF, # 46, November 17-23, 1997, p.5).

• Nuclear Weapons and Russia's Security (by Makhmut Gareyev, NG-NVO,  # 42, November 14-20, 1997, p.4).

• Nuclear Weaponry after the Cold War: Does the World and Russia Need It? (by Ivan Safranchuk, Yadernyy Control, # 34-35, October-November 1997, pp.23-26).

• The Role of Nuclear Weaponry in Russian Policy.  In Nuclear Arms Reduction. The Process and Problems - in Russian/ Ed. by A.S. Diakov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, 1997.

• Russia to Slash Ground Forces, Rely on Nukes (by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times, October 17, 1997, p.1). See also, U.S. Report on Russian Military Said Not New (Russia Today, October 20, 1997).

• Nuclear Weaponry Time Is Up (by Alexei Yablokov, NG-NVO, # 31, 1997, p. 6).

• The Basis for Strategic Stability (by Victor Starukhin and Gennadi Kuznezov, NG-NVO, # 31, 1997, p. 6).

• Electronic Conference on the Utility of Nuclear Weapons, June 23-27, 1997.

• Tactical Weaponry in a New Geopolitical Situation (by Vladimir Belous, Yadernyy Control, #14, February 1996, pp.2-7). See also: Tactical Nuclear Weaponry: New Geopolitical Realities or Old Mistakes? - in Russian (by Nikolai Sokov, Yadernyy Control, # 26, February 1997, pp.12-16) and Tactical Nuclear Weapons Elimination: Next Steps for Arms Control, (by Nikolay Sokov, The Nonproliferation Review, Winter 1997, vol. 4, N 2)

• Prospects and Contradictions of Russian Nuclear Deterrence (by Yuri Fyodorov, Yadernyy Control, # 14, February, 1996, pp. 18-22).

• Future of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces: Discussions and Arguments (by Eugene Miasnikov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, Dolgoprudny, 1995).

• Russia's Missile Power: The Past and Future. (Ed. by Alexander Pikayev, Committee of Critical Technologies and Nonproliferation & the Monterrey Institute for International Studies, 1996, 209 p.)

• START-2 Treaty and Future of Russia's Strategic Forces, (by Anton Surikov, Yadernoye Rasprostraneniye, 1997, Issue N 20, November, pp. 34-39).

• Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces - Current Status and Prospects for Future. In Nuclear Arms Reduction. The Process and Problems- in Russian / Ed. by A.S. Diakov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, 1997.

• Russian Strategic Forces for Deterrence (by Igor Korotchenko, NG-NVO, # 5, 1997).

• Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces: The Present and Future (by V.N. Polyakov, Nevskii Bastion, # 1, 1996, pp. 3-9).

• Russia's Strategic Nuclear Potential and START-2 (by Anton Surikov, Postfactum Military Bulletin, # 24, December, 1994, pp. 13-17).

• Military Secret. The Pentagon Will Learn About Capabilities of Our Missile from Izvestiya newspaper, (by Viktor Litovkin, Izvestiya, December 24, 1997, p.4), The Minister Has Planted "Topol-M" (Sergei Sokut, NVO-NG, December 25, 1997), New Missiles for Non-Combat-Ready Army (Pavel Felgenhauer, Segodnya, December 25, 1997).

• The First Steps of the Military Reform, by Lev Volkov, NG-NVO, # 43, November 21-27, 1997, p.1.

• Comments on an interview with Colonel General Vladimir Yakovlev, CinC of the Strategic Missile Forces (The First Step of The Military Reform Has Strengthened Russia's Nuclear Missile Shield, by Victor Litovkin, Izvestiya, November 19, 1997, p.2); Russia's "Nuclear Shield" Becomes Decrepit, But Its Effectiveness Grows Impetuously, byAlexander Koretskii, Segodnya, November 19, 1997, p.3).

• Russian Plans New Ballistic Missile (by Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press, November 14, 1997).

• First Silo-Based "Topol-M" Missiles Will Be Deployed by the End of This Year - interview with the CinC of the Strategic Missile Forces Colonel General Vladimir Yakovlev (by Maria Katsva, Yadernyy Control, # 34-35, October-November 1997, pp. 4-6).

• Requiem on "Satan" - interview with S.I. Us, a leading designer of SS-18 ICBM (by Vladimir Gubarev, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, September 24, 1997).

• Less and More Effective is Better - interview with the CinC of the Strategic Missile Forces Colonel General Vladimir Yakovlev (by Igor Korotchenko, NG-NVO, # 28, August 2-8, 1997).

• Reforming Strategic Forces Will Make a Tangible Effect - interview with the CinC of the Strategic Missile Forces Colonel General Vladimir Yakovlev (by Igor Korotchenko, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July 4,1997).

• Who and Why Dislikes the "Topol" Missile System (Igor Pavlov, NG-NVO, #10, 1997) See also comments by Nikolay Sokov  to this article (Yadernyy Control, # 30-31, June-July, 1997).

• The Strategic Missile Forces and Military Reform -  interview with the CinC of the SMF Army General Igor Sergeyev  (by Gennadi Miranovich and Alexandr Dolinin, Krasnaya Zvezda, December 5, 1996, pp. 1-2).

• Naval Aspects of National Security of Russia, (by B.N. Makeyev, Committee on Non-proliferation of Critical Technologies, Moscow, 1997, 166 p.).

• Keep a Capability to Confront a Threat from the Sea, (by V. Apanasenko, Morskoy Sbornik, N 11, 1997, pp. 3-6).

• Russia's Sea Based Strategic Forces. Problems and Prospects - in Russian (by A.M. Ovcharenko, Vooruzheniya. Politika. Konversiya, # 2, 1996, pp. 38-40).

• Future of Russia's Sea Based Strategic Forces - in Russian (by Eugene Miasnikov, More (The Sea), # 3, 1996, pp. 66-69).

• Sea Based Component of the Nuclear Triade (by Oleg Yerofeyev, NG-NVO, March 14, 1996, p. 6).

• More about strategic submarines

Air Based Strategic Forces

• Neither Russia, nor Ukraine Needs Strategic Bombers (Yanina Sokolovskaya, Izvestiya, July 10,1997).

• Russia's Weaponry: Strategic and Long Range Bombers (NG-NVO, #14, 1997, p.6).

• Russia Redeems Strategic Bombers and Missiles from Ukraine (by Vladimir Sergeyev, Segodnya, January 16, 1996, p.10).

• Taking Nuclear Weapons off Alert, (by Andrew Koch, Weekly Defense Monitor, Issue 3, 1998). See also on Norwegian missile incident: Could Norway Trigger a Nuclear War?  Notes on the Russian Command and Control System, (by Nikolai Sokov, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo Series, Memo N 24, October 1997)

• Redoubling Nuclear Weapons Reduction (by Bruce Blair, Harold Feiveson and Frank von Hippel, The Washington Post, November 12, 1997, p.A23).

• Taking Nuclear Weapons off Hair-Trigger Alert (by Bruce G. Blair, Harold A. Feiveson and Frank N. von Hippel, Scientific American, November, 1997).

 
• A German View of Nuclear Postures: a new Policy Brief (by Harald Mueller and Katja Frank of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt. October 8, 1997).
 
• A Premature Initiative (by Vladimir Belous, NG-NVO, # 35, 1997, p.1).

 
• From Nuclear Deterrence to Mutual Safety.  As Russia's Arsenal Crumbles, It's Time to Act (By Sam Nunn and Bruce Blair, The Washington Post, June 22, 1997, p.C01).

 
• Mishaps Put Russian Missiles in "Combat Mode" (by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times, May 12, 1997, p. A1). See also: "Boomerang" Operation or a Surpize for the Russian Minister from the C.I.A.(by Natalia Kalashnikova and Nikolay Zimin, Segodnya, May 14, 1997, p. 4).

 
• Russian Nuclear Policy and the Status of Detargeting. (Testimony of Bruce Blair Before the Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on National Security, March 13, 1997).

• Global Zero Alert for Nuclear Forces (by Bruce Blair, Brookings Institution, 1995).