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According to the newspaper New York Times (which refers to sources in U.S. official circles), in his address to Congress, scheduled for Tuesday, President Barack Obama wants to take the initiative to reduce the U.S. nuclear weapons by a third.<\/p>\n
Although in his speech, he probably will not call the exact numbers, but according to rumors the president wants to limit the number of deployed nuclear warheads the United States one thousand or a little more. President allegedly believes that America can make a drastic reduction, saving big money, with no compromise on national security. And the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the armed forces seem to have signed on to this concept.<\/p>\n
Experts remind that at the present time the United States has 1,700 nuclear warheads, while the START treaty with Russia this number by 2018 to be reduced to 1,550. In addition, in accordance with the agreement, the parties undertook to seven years to lower the ceiling for deployed and non-deployed strategic delivery vehicles to 800. Earlier, U.S. media reported that the United States is likely ready to start new talks with Russia to further reduce nuclear warheads to 1000 – 1100 units. Say, in the Obama administration have developed directive that refers to the possibility of the reduction arsenal. It is expected that the completion of the formal work on this document will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
In the above mentioned directive does not mention the possibility of unilateral reduction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, say representatives of the administration. In contrast, American leaders would like to conclude with Russia mutually binding agreement on further reductions. Preliminary exchange of views on this matter was held on February 2 in Munich between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. In addition, it is expected that in February the theme of reducing nuclear arsenals raised in Moscow, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller and national security adviser to U.S. President Thomas Donilon.<\/p>\n
By the way, the adviser will allegedly bring to President Vladimir Putin a secret letter from his chief, which, probably, will contain quite the opinion of Americans great deals for Russia. In the forefront, the secret message does in an\u00a0 interesting way interplay with the recent statement of the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, that despite promises from Obama no flexibility on the issue of missile defense system was observed.<\/p>\n
In general, a matter with the message to Moscow by Thomas Donilon is unclear. It’s date is not defined. Talking about end of February – beginning of March. Secondarily, the mystery is the agenda of negotiations. U.S. National Security Council believes that Donilon will discuss a wide range of topics and agenda will become clearer closer to the point. Clearly, Americans are staying quite on this. Apparently, it is connected with the preparation of Obama’s visit to Russia. It is believed that it may not take place at all because the parties do not issues talk about.<\/p>\n
According to the chief editor of the magazine “National Defense” Igor Korotchenko:<\/strong><\/p>\n “The agenda the Americans want to talk about, I think, will be primarily related to the reduction of tactical nuclear weapons. For us, such a subject of negotiations is not advantageous.<\/p>\n Since there is a more than four-fold superiority in conventional forces of NATO over Russia’s armed forces, for us, tactical nuclear weapons are the main way to neutralize the superiority of NATO in conventional forces.<\/p>\n Any negotiations on further reductions, we will conduct two conditions. Principle stand of Russia is that negotiations begin only if the tactical nuclear weapons of the two countries are in the perimeter of the national territory . Russian’s – are in Russia. And Americans will have to return them from Europe.<\/p>\n The Americans very probably won’t agree with this position. And second outstanding issue Euro missile defense. See what happens. First – the AEGIS system, which is specifically for the European missile defense system and will be transferred a ground-based version. A “second part” of the American missile defense system – are heavy interceptor missiles. Therefore, Americans are building a comprehensive missile defense system. It concerns us. Already in 2018, in an extreme case in 2020 they will have a real ability to intercept and destroy our ICBMs. And the question arises how should Russia react to this threat. Russian proposals the Americans do not want to listen to. Therefore, I do not think that they will formulate something interesting for us. Therefore, we must define ourselves the negotiating agenda with the United States. “<\/p>\n Experts still find it difficult to specify the type or types of weapons that would be subject to the next round of US-Russian negotiations. According to some reports, the White House intends to propose a theme of reducing strategic nuclear weapons (both operational and placed, and in reserve), tactical weapons and missile defense. In many ways, the problem of the European segment of the U.S. missile defense is the main obstacle to further bilateral nuclear arms reduction. Meanwhile, analysts believe that Russia has reached an acceptable level for it and the START it will not reduce.<\/p>\n Igor Korotchenko said:<\/p>\n “They have a decisive superiority in conventional forces. They are able to solve problems that requires a modern war by non-nuclear means and ways. If we suddenly disarmed, if we suddenly would not be armed with nuclear weapons (or would drop to insufficiently low numbers), it would create a new military – political reality. Americans will not be longer afraid of our retaliation. We would become victims of the military-political blackmail.<\/p>\n They want to drive the situation around the year 1945 , when they had a nuclear bomb, but we didn’t. Then we were vulnerable.<\/p>\n In the same time, the U.S. has surpassed us with the number of precision guided weapons. Admittedly, the U.S. military-industrial complex is excellent, providing for ever-increasing military-technical advancement from the rest of the\u00a0 world . This shell ensure the future of America’s global primacy. “<\/p>\n Washington is trying to convince Moscow that a further decline of nuclear war heads in the U.S. and Russia will annually save up to $ 8 billion. But the point, does not seem in the economy, but in national priorities, in which, according to the chief editor of the magazine “Russia in Global Affairs,” Fyodor Lukyanov, <\/strong>the two countries have already differences:<\/p>\n “We swapped in an interesting way. Until 2010, Russia kept returning to the agenda of the strategic arms reduction. And the U.S. under Bush kept just saying that this is the agenda of\u00a0 25-years to come. Then Obama came to the conclusion that it is necessary to regulate now. We then concluded, as we know, the START treaty.<\/p>\n And now there is the opposite situation. Even before Obama’s re-election, it was clear that the matter of reduction should be a top priority.<\/p>\n As for Russia, it has achieved what it wanted. We like the current level. Tactical weapons we do not want to touch. Because, among other things, a tactical weapon for us (no one will talk aloud) is an issue with China.\u00a0 Though they are stationed in the European part of Russia, but, theoretically, if anything, the application will be probably elsewhere.<\/p>\n Thus, the fact that the Americans are interested – we’re not.<\/p>\n Our priority “number one” is economical cooperation, investment and trade.<\/p>\n In essence the U.S. will try to convince Russia that the recently signed START treaty is outdated. And the statements in it levels of armament suddenly lost relevance.<\/p>\n However, this is not the case for us, says the chief editor of “National Defense” Igor Korotchenko:<\/p>\n “The process of reduction within the next few years is described in detail in\u00a0 the current US-Russian treaty. To be ahead of the engine we do not need. There are clear ceilings. Our main task – to fit into them.<\/p>\n If Americans need to cut, unload warheads from extra charges, transfer of carriers in the non-nuclear status (they have a surplus of nuclear weapons), we have the lack of it (from the point of view of the quota, which we have to go).<\/p>\n The process of decommissioning and disposal of liquid Soviet ballistic missiles, completing the cycle of operation of strategic missile submarines of project 667 BDR (I mean the three boats in the Pacific Fleet), completing the cycle of operation of mobile groups of ground complexes of the “Topol” (not to be confused with the “Topol-M” – it’s old, old Soviet “Poplar”) – all of it lowers the bar that exists in the Russian strategic nuclear forces any way.<\/p>\n Therefore, today’s Russia is working to build solid fuel ballistic missiles, such as the RS-24 “Yars” silo based and mobile. And also re-started the naval strategic nuclear forces to the new missile class “Northwind” with new ballistic missile “Bulava”.<\/p>\n Despite the divergence of positions between Moscow and Washington, experts doubt the beginning of a new Cold War, or even more so in unwinding the arms race. Just the parties should reach an understanding is, as they say, “on the bank.” In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past, because of they misunderstood each other’s motives, and neglected their own national interests.<\/p>\n Translated from Russian<\/p>\n http:\/\/rus.ruvr.ru\/2013_02_11\/SSHA-ispolzujut-dogovor-SNV-dlja-prodvizhenija-svoih-nacionalnih-interesov\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington to offer Moscow to reduce nuclear arsenals below the threshold indicated in the START treaty. Meanwhile, experts say that now Russia does not consider the process priority “number one” in its foreign policy. 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