Russia

The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has long considered civil relations between the United States and Russia as essential to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and eliminate the risk of nuclear war. During the Cold War, we supported verifiable arms control treaties beginning with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty through the START treaties. With the end of the Soviet Union, we have focused on programs to reduce the nuclear materials in Russia and eliminate nuclear weapons from Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. One major success was the Nunn-Lugar Cooperate Threat Reduction (CTR) program, which eliminated dangerous fissile material in the former Soviet Union.

Today, with US-Russian relations at a post-Cold War low, and as both countries modernize their nuclear arsenals, the threat of a new nuclear arms race underscores the need for sensible non-proliferation and arms control cooperation.

RECENT ANALYSIS ON RUSSIA

• FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell June 28, 2019
• Seventeen years post-ABM Treaty withdrawal, where are we? June 13, 2019
• Putin moves to leave weapons treaty as US accuses Russia of nuclear violations May 30, 2019
• Russia ‘probably’ violating nuclear test ban treaty, top US official says May 29, 2019
• Remembering Senator Richard Lugar April 30, 2019
• Multilateral Arms Control Is a Worthy Goal, But Not At the Expense of Current Vital Agreements April 26, 2019
• Trump admin aiming for major nuclear deal with Russia and China April 26, 2019
• Women in Nuclear History: Rose Gottemoeller April 24, 2019
• New START or the Start of a New Arms Race March 14, 2019
• U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton urges missile deployment, end to treaty March 14, 2019