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Russia's political and military leaders rejected "with idiotic pretexts" the disarmament proposals of former US President Barack Obama and rejoiced in the coming to power of Donald Trump, who "has no interest in any nuclear disarmament or intention Propose nothing to Russia. " This is reflected in a conversation with the Russian academic Alexéi Arbátov, a prestigious specialist in weapons problems and disarmament agreements.

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For the past seven years, the US and Russia have not held disarmament talks, the efforts of specialists from the two countries, who, like Arbatoto, try to convince leaders of the need to maintain the nuclear control system that so much effort Knitting from the 60's of last century.


According to Arbatov, the "most urgent" security problem today is "to save the nuclear weapons control system, which can be seen at any time, because the Americans agree with the reduction of medium-range missiles. In 1987 By Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev) or Russia decide to do so, as they did with the conventional arms deal in Europe, and the Americans stayed in the offensive strategic arms reduction agreement (signed in 2010 by President Obama and His Colleague Dmitri Medvedev), without waiting for this document to expire in 2021, and after that, the nuclear test ban agreement will sink and we will find ourselves in a state of chaos. " The arms reduction treaty of strategic forces, signed by both sets of bearers and nuclear warheads (800 bearers and 1550 nuclear warheads per part).


"Ukraine and Syria are important issues because of the danger of confrontation, but the most urgent thing is to save the medium-range arms agreement," says the expert, according to which "today, it can be done quickly and without great work." Both countries are accused of violating the medium-range missile reduction treaty.

From the late 1960s, when Richard Nixon was elected President of the United States, Republicans and US Democrats adopted models of previous action against Moscow on disarmament issues. "Democrats believe that the US is superior in a whole Moscow except in the field of nuclear weapons, in which both countries are balanced, and think that everything else will diminish the role of nuclear weapons (in the whole of the relationship) The greater the US advantage.

"Republicans, in turn, also consider that nuclear weapons are the only field where Moscow and Washington are the same, but they have the opposite consequences for the Democrats and they want to demonstrate that they are also superior in this field and that their total superiority to the sea Recognized ". "That is to say, Democrats have tried to minimize the nuclear aspect to increase the superiority in other fields and the Republicans try to increase the weight of the nuclear armament to obtain the superiority with this help. The USSR, but not from a position of struggle and to weaken to the contrary, but by general considerations of security, "he says.

Obama and Medvedev greet each other during the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul in 2012.
Obama and Medvedev greet at Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul in 2012. GETTY
"With Trump coming to power, the scheme works again very accurately. Trump has no interest in nuclear disarmament, he has no intention of proposing anything." Obama always proposed things, new tactical weapons treaties, strategic offensive weapons , But Trump did not, and now, within the classic Republican model vis-a-vis the USSR, an ambitious plan for the renewal of strategic nuclear weapons and tactics and anti-missile defense has been put in place. They believe that the nuclear weapon is the main element of prestige, a symbol of the state of Russia in the world. "

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