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The Missile Technology Control Regime and Strategic Arms Reductions – A View From Russia, by Vladimir Rybachenkov, Presentation at the 11-th UN-RK Joint Conference on Disarmament and Nonproliferation Issues, Jeju (Republic of Korea), December 2-4, 2012

Chapters from the book Nuclear Reset: Arms Reduction and Non-Proliferation (ed. by Alexei Arbatov, Vladimir Dvorkin and Natalia Bubnova, Carnegie Moscow Center, 2012), November 30, 2012

Nuclear Warheads and Weapons-Grade Materials, (by Anatoly Diakov)
Nuclear Fuel Cycle, (by Anatoly Diakov)
Precision-Guided Conventional Weapons, (by Eugene Miasnikov)

An Arctic Nuclear Weapons Free Zone – A View From Russia, by Vladimir Rybachenkov, remarks at a seminar on "Arctic Nuclear Weapons Free Zone – Challenges and Opportunities", Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen, September 26, 2012.

Strategic Conventional Arms and Their Impact on the Roles for Nuclear Weapons, (in Russian) by Eugene Miasnikov, remarks at the seminar "The Future of Reductions in Nuclear Arsenals: is it Possible to Reduce the Role of Nuclear Weapons?", held by PIR Center and Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow, September 20, 2012. Expanded version of this paper in Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye (September 28, 2012)

Nuclear Submarines Open New Horizons, (in Russian) Eugene Miasnikov's interview to "Voice of Russia", August 7, 2012

Conversion of Research Reactors in Russia, (in Russian), by Anatoli Diakov, June 21, 2012

Bridging the Missile Defense Gap, by Ivanka Barzashka, Timur Kadyshev, Goetz Neuneck, and Ivan Oelrich, International Herald Trubine, May 18, 2012

Strategic Conventional Weapons and Stability, by Eugene Miasnikov, Presentation at the Workshop on Strategic Stability and Arms Control, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing, China, April 23, 2012

Prospects for US and Russian Nuclear Cuts In View of NPT Article VI Commitments, (in Russian), by Eugene Miasnikov, Security Index, N 1 (100), Vol 18, Spring 2012

Russian Non-Proliferation Efforts, by Anatoli Diakov, presentation to the students of Non-Proliferation course at the NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany, March 19, 2012

Disposition of Excess Russian Weapon HEU and Plutonium, by Anatoli Diakov, UNIDIR Resources, February, 2012

Tactical Nuclear Weapons, by Vladimir Rybachenkov, remarks at A Carnegie-Ploughshares Workshop "Next Steps in Arms Control", Washington, February 15, 2012

A Russian Perspective On The Future Of Arms Control And Mutual Deterrence, by Vladimir Rybachenkov, text of presentation at the Fourth Annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit, Arlington, VA, USA, February 14-17, 2012

Elements Of The Strategy For Nuclear Power Development And Spent Fuel Management In Russia , by Anatoli Diakov, presentation for the meeting "Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing: An uncertain future" at Japan Association for Arms Control and Disarmament, Tokyo, January 20, 2012

Future Steps on U.S. and Russian Nuclear Arms Reductions, (in Russian), Eugene Miasnikov, remarks at the seminar "Shaping a New Agenda for U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control: Identifying Challenges and Exploring Opportunities," Vienna, January 26-27, 2012

Disposition of Excess Weapon Grade Plutonium - Problems and Perspectives, (now in English), by Vladimir Rybachenkov, January 17, 2012

Disposition of Excess Weapons-Grade Plutonium - Problems and Perspectives, (in Russian), by Vladimir Rybachenkov, December 27, 2011

Time to Protect NATO through Missile Defence Cooperation with, by Ivanka Barzashka, Timur Kadyshev, Goetz Neuneck, and Ivan Oelrich, European Leadership Network for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, December 6, 2011

Developing Approaches toward Resolving the Issue of Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, by Eugene Miasnikov, paper presented at the Roundtable "Improving transparency on tactical nuclear weapons: Building blocks for a NATO-Russia dialogue," Berlin, November 17-18, 2011

Operational Advantages and Risks in the Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, by Eugene Miasnikov, remarks at the Round Table "International Humanitarian Law and New Weapon Technologies," Sanremo, Italy, September 8-10, 2011

Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Proliferation Risks, (in Russian), by Vladimir Rybachenkov, text of a lecture given at the International Courses on Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 22-25, 2011

How to avoid a new arms race, by By Ivanka Barzashka, Timur Kadyshev, Goetz Neuneck, and Ivan Oelrich, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 25, 2011

Advanced Conventional Capabilities and Their Impact on Nuclear Arms Control, by Eugene Miasnikov, remarks at the International Workshop "Russian Interests and Western Priorities: The Future of Arms Control in Europe," Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - IFSH, Berlin, Germany, May 12-13, 2011

Nuclear Reductions After New START: Obstacles and Opportunities, by Anatoly Diakov, Eugene Miasnikov, and Timur Kadyshev, Arms Control Today, May 2011

The Threat of the Use of Small UAVs by Terrorists: Technical Aspects, by Eugene Miasnikov, presentation at the International Seminar on the Law of Armed Conflicts, French Air Force Academy, Salon-de-Provence, France, April 7, 2011

Role of Parliaments in Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation – a View from Russia, by Vladimir Rybachenkov, remarks at the Partnership for Peace Workshop, Geneva, March 30 - April 1, 2011

Verified Reduction of Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons, by Anatoli Diakov, February 18, 2011

Strategic Conventional Arms: Problems and Solutions, (in Russian), by Eugene Miasnikov, paper published in Index Besopasnosti, February 1, 2011

Conventional Strategic Arms in the New START Treaty and Prospects for their Control and Limitation, by Eugene Miasnikov, remarks at the Round-Table "Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control", FOI, Stockholm, Sweden, January 25, 2011

Assessment of Iran's Weapons Grade Uranium Production Capabilities, (in Russian), by Anatoli Diakov, January 22, 2011

On Prospects of the US-Russian Disarmament Dialogue, by Vladimir Rybachenkov, December 2, 2010

Next Steps in U.S.-Russia Arms Reductions, by Eugene Miasnikov, remarks at the Conference "Next Steps in Arms Control: Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense and NATO", November 8, 2010

US and Russian Nuclear Weapons Reductions and the New START Treaty, - in Russian, Eugene Miasnikov, presentation for students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, October 6, 2010

On the Relationship Between Nuclear and Conventional Strategic Arms in the New START Treaty, by Eugene Miasnikov, September 10, 2010

Prospects of the CTBT Ratification by the USA, (in Russian), by Vladimir Rybachenkov, May 27, 2010

Country Perspectives on the Challenges to Nuclear Disarmament: Russia, by Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov (a paper from the recent IPFM Report ), May 15, 2010

Missile Threats, BMD and Strategic Balance, in Russian, by Timur Kadyshev, March 6, 2010

New START Treaty and Further Strategic Nuclear Arms Reductions, in Russian, by Eugene Miasnikov, March 5, 2010

Further Reductions of Nuclear Weapons, by Anatoli Diakov, Timur Kadyshev and Eugene Miasnikov, February 3, 2010
"...Cooperation between USA and Russia in the search of complex solutions to the problems discussed in this article will allow not only to create conditions for the next phase of reductions towards numerically lower levels of their nuclear arsenals, but also to transform relations between the two countries from confrontational to confident and partner-like, which, in turn, will facilitate departure from nuclear deterrence in their bilateral relations."

The nuclear "renaissance" & preventing the spread of enrichment & reprocessing technologies: a Russian view, by Anatoli Diakov (in The Global Nuclear Future, vol. 2), January 9, 2010

The Cost of a Problem (in Russian), by Anatoli Diakov, Kommersant, December 17, 2009

Challenges and Opportunities for Russia-U.S. Nuclear Arms Control, by Anatoli Diakov and Frank von Hippel, November 19, 2009

Prospects for Strategic Arms Control After 2009 - in Russian, Eugene Miasnikov, presentation for students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, October 21, 2009

Impact of U.S. BMD Decision on START Follow-On Treaty Talks, Eugene Miasnikov in Yana Churikova's program "Speaking Frankly" on Expert-TV channel, September 21, 2009

Long-Range Precision-Guided Conventional Weapons: Implications for Strategic Balance, by Eugene Miasnikov, September 21, 2009

On Some Aspects of the The Joint Understanding for the START Follow-on Treaty, signed by U.S. and Russian Presidents during the Recent Summit Meeting, - now in English, by Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov, August 7, 2009

The U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Reduction Dialog: Challenges and Opportunities, by Anatoli Diakov, Presentation to the Berlin Article VI Forum "New Imperatives and Openings for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World", February 8, 2009

US-Russian Strategic Arms Control After 2009. Room For The Compromise?, - in Russian, by Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov, December 4, 2008

Are There Any Prospects For START Replacement?, - in Russian, by Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov, February 16, 2008

Gabala Radar: Past, Present, Future, - in Russian, by Yevguenii Aliyev, October 9, 2007

Prompt Global Strike and START-I Treaty, - in Russian, by Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov, September 14, 2007

Prompt Global Strike in the US Strategic Forces Development Plans, - in Russian, by Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov, September 14, 2007

Nuclear Arms Reductions and Arms Control in U.S.-Russian Bilateral Relations: Current Status and Future, - in Russian, by Anatoli Diakov, Eugene Miasnikov and Nikolay Sokov, December 27, 2006

Conventional Arms Control and Uncomtrollable Weapons. Azerbaijan - Nagorny Karabakh - Armenia, - in Russian, by Yevguenii Aliyev, November 21, 2006

Conventional Arms Control in Georgia. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, - in Russian, by Yevguenii Aliyev, November 1, 2006

ReSTART: The Need for a New U.S.-Russian Strategic Arms Agreement, by Anatoli Daikov and Eugene Miasnikov, September 8, 2006

Feasibility of Converting Russian Icebreaker Reactors from HEU to LEU Fuel (2Mb, pdf file) by Anatoli S. Diakov, Alexander M. Dmitriev, Jungmin Kang, Alexey M. Shuvayev, and Frank N. von Hippel, Science and Global Security, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2006), pp. 33-48 (April 20, 2006)

U.S.-Russian Bilateral Arms Control Regime: What Measures Can Be Utilized in a Future Verification System of Multilateral Nuclear Reductions?, (by Eugene Miasnikov, Remarks at the Conference "International Arms Control, Transparency and Verification in a European-Russian Framework of Cooperative Security," Berlin, January 24-27, 2003); See also PDF version

Summary of the Seminar on De-alerting of Russian and U.S. Forces, - in Russian, October 23, 2002

What To Do With The Treaty On Strategic Offensive Reductions?, - in Russian (by Anatoli Diakov, Timur Kadyshev, Eugene Miasnikov and Pavel Podvig, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, September 20, 2002). See also Gennady Khromov's comments (in Russian), the author is a participant of INF, START and other arms control treaties negotiations

Counterforce Potential Of Conventional Precision Guided Weapons, (by Eugene Miasnikov, Presentation at the 1st International Professional Meeting of Independent Technical Security Analysts, Chicago, IL, July 23-24, 2002) - slides

Russian Early Warning System: Past and Present, (by Pavel Podvig, Science & Global Security, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2002, pp. 21�60)

Tiny Nuclear Myths, - in Russian, (by Robert Nelson and Pavel Podvig, Izvestia, April 24, 2002)

Needless Obligations. Why Does Russia Want A Treaty With No Substance?, (by Anatoli Diakov, Timur Kadyshev, Eugene Miasnikov and Pavel Podvig, Izvestia, March 18, 2002, p. 4)

Take Russia�s "Yes" for an Answer, (by Pavel Podvig and Frank von Hippel, Global Beat Syndicate, March 18, 2002)

Russia Should Be Careful About Its Wishes - They May Come True, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, SMI.Ru, February 20, 2002)

The End of Strategic Arms Control?, (by Pavel Podvig, PONARS Policy Memo No. 217, December 2001)

Left with a Broken Treaty, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, SMI.RU, December 13, 2001)

Missile Defense: For Russia, little loss, little gain, (by Pavel Podvig, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, November-December, 2001)

President Bush's Nuclear Arithmetic, - in Russian, (by Eugene Miasnikov, Izvestia, November 12, 2001)

Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, (edited by Pavel Podvig with contributions from Oleg Bukharin, Timur Kadyshev, Eugene Miasnikov, Pavel Podvig, Igor Sutyagin, Maxim Tarasenko, and Boris Zhelezov, MIT Press, November 2001)

Overcoming Obstacles, by Pavel Podvig, Izvestia, October 29, 2001)

Rumsfeld Strengthens The ABM Treaty In Order To Abandon It, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, SMI.RU, October 26, 2001)

Illusions of the Treaty, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, Izvestia, July 26, 2001).

Russia Agrees To Change the ABM Treaty, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, SMI.Ru, July 23, 2001)

US Will Cut ABM Treaty Off Piece by Piece, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, SMI.Ru, July 13, 2001)

U.S.-Russian Relations in Nuclear Arms Reductions: Current State and Prospects, (ed. by Anatoli Diakov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, Dolgoprudny, 52 pages, July 17, 2001). Complete report in Russian is available in PDF format, (350 Kb). See also a transcript of the press conference held on July 3rd, 2001 at the National Press Development Institute, - in Russian

Russia Is Interested In A Dialog, Not In Mere Words, - in Russian, by Pavel Podvig (May 17, 2001)

Calculations and Miscalculations. Russian Policy towards Missile Defenses Has to be Revised, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, May 11, 2001)

Exclusive: On a Speech by President Bush at the National Defense University, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, May 5, 2001)

No BMD Dialogue to Expect, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, SMI.ru, May 5, 2001)

Russian Policy Toward Ballistic Missile Defenses Needs To Be Reassessed, - in Russian, by Pavel Podvig, April 28, 2001)

Russian Perceptions of US-Russian Security Relations and Responses to NMD, (by Eugene Miasnikov, presentation at the conference �Moving Beyond Missile Defense�, Santa Barbara, CA, March 19 - 21, 2001)

Precision-Guided Weapons and START III. How Do Precision-Guided Weapons Affect Strategic Balance?, - in Russian, (by Eugene Miasnikov, Yadernaya Bezopasnost', N 44-45, January-February, 2001)

START III and Precision Guided Weapons, - in Russian, (transcript of the press-conference at the National Press Institute, November 22, 2000)

Putin's Boost-Phase Defense: The Offer That Wasn't, (by Pavel Podvig, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo Series, Memo No. 180, November 2000)

Precision Guided Weapons and Strategic Balance, (by Eugene Miasnikov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, November, 2000, 43 pages; ill.)

Does the ABM Treaty Have Future?, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, Yaderny Control, N 5, September-October, 2000, pp. 4-9)

Nuclear Parity and National Security In New Conditions, (by Anatoli Diakov, Timur Kadyshev and Pavel Podvig, The PIR Study Papers , N 14, May, 2000)

What START III Does Russia Need?, - in Russian, (by Anatoli Diakov and Pavel Podvig, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, N 18, May 26, 2000)

START III: Opportunities and Consequences for Nuclear Disarmament, (by Eugene Miasnikov, Presentation at the panel "Achieving a Nuclear Weapons Convention. Legal, Political, and Technical Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament", May 9, 2000, United Nations, New York, NY)

START and the ABM Treaty: Is a Compromise Possible?, (by Paul Podvig, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo Series, Memo No. 132, April 2000)

False alarm, nuclear danger, (by Geoffrey Forden, Pavel Podvig and Theodore A. Postol, IEEE Spectrum, March 2000, V37, Number 3.)

Mending Nuclear Fences (by Anatoli S. Diakov and James E. Goodby, IEEE Spectrum, March 2000, V37, Number 3.)

Antimissile Front In The Northern Norway, (by Theodore Postol and Anatoli Diakov, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, N 7, February 25 - March 2, 2000)

A History of the ABM Treaty in Russia, (by Pavel Podvig, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo Series, Memo No. 109, February 2000)

High Precision Missiles Replace Nukes, - in Russian, (by Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, N 4, February 4-10, 2000, p.6)

START II Ratification Is No More Urgent, (by Pavel Podvig, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, N 3, January 28 - February 3, 2000)

Russian Nuclear Forces in Ten Years with and without START II, (by Pavel Podvig, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo Series, Memo No. 92, October 1999)

On U.S.-Russian Discussions On ABM Treaty Modification, - in Russian, press release of the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, October 3, 1999, was published in Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, N 39, October 8-14, 1999, p. 6

Searching For An Exit From The Dead-end: Strategic Arms Reductions And The ABM Treaty, (by Anatoly Diakov and Paul Podvig, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye NG, N 25, July 2-8, 1999, p. 1,2). See also Our Comment: On Irresponsibility, (in Russian), March 24, 1999

NATO Expansion And The Process Of Nuclear Reductions, the report of experts of our Center, presented at the conference "NATO Movement To The East - Security Problems For Russia And The CIS States", (St. Petersburg, April 28-29, 1999)

Russia's Answer to U.S. NMD Deployment, (by Pavel Podvig The Washington Post, letters to the editor, published on February 6 and February 13, 1999)

Russian - U.S. Workshop On Warhead Transparency, the summary of the meeting hosted by the Federation of American Scientists (November 9-10, 1998, Washington, D.C.)

Russian Strategic Nuclear Weapons / Ed. by Pavel Podvig (the authors: Pavel Podvig, Oleg Bukharin, Boris Zhelezov, Timur Kadyshev, Eugene Miasnikov, Igor Sutyagin and Maxim Tarasenko) - Moscow, IzdAT, 1998, 492 pages. See an annotation (now in English).

Nuclear Disarmament and Transparency Measures - in Russian (by Prof. Anatoli Diakov, presentation on October 8, 1998 at the seminar, organized by PIR Center)

Breaking the Deadlock: Confidence Building Measures Can Speed Up the Process of Nuclear Disarmament (by Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov, Nezavisimaya Gazeta - Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye (NG-NVO), September 11-17, 1998, pp.1,4)

The Future of Russian-U.S. Strategic Arms Reductions: START III and Beyond (A conference jointly sponsored by the M.I.T. Security Studies Program and the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT; Cambridge, MA, February 2-6, 1998)

START III and Verified Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement - in Russian (by Anatoli Diakov)

Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A Russian View (by Timur Kadyshev) Summary of the presentation

What START III Could Correspond to Russian Interests? (by Eugene Miasnikov)

The Russian Strategic Forces: Uncertain Future (by Paul Podvig)

Nuclear Arms Reduction. The Process and Problems (Ed. by A.S. Diakov, The Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, 1997).

The End of the ABM Treaty? - in Russian (by Anatoli Diakov, George Lewis, Pavel Podvig and Theodore Postol, #37, October 3-9, 1997, p.1).

The Economy of Weapon Grade Plutonium Disposal in Nuclear Reactors, (by A.S. Diakov and Ye. I. Sharov, the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, 1997)

Is START-2 Possible? - in Russian (by Eugene Miasnikov, NG-NVO, September 12, 1996). Problems of START-2 Treaty Ratification in Russia. Is START-3 Possible? (by Eugene Miasnikov, INESAP Information Bulletin #10, August 1996, pp. 15-17).

Can Russia Save the ABM Treaty?, - in Russian, (by Pavel Podvig, Yaderny Control, � 23, November 1996, pp. 2-5)

How Can The ABM Treaty Be Saved? (by Vladimir Belous and Pavel Podvig, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July 11, 1996)

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

Perspectives of Disposition of Weapon-Grade Plutonium in Russia, (by Anatoli Diakov, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, N 7, April 1996, pp. 1,2)

Disposition of Weapons-Grade Plutonium in Russia: Evaluation of Different Options, by Prof. Anatoli Diakov, the paper published in Dismantlement and Destruction of Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons, ed. by Nancy Turtle Schulte, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, Belgium, 1996, pp. 171-180).

ABM Treaty, Nonstrategic Anti Ballistic Missile Systems and Disarmament, (by V.S. Belous and P.L. Podvig, presentation at the conference of the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow "START II: Prospects for Ratification", October 31, 1995)

Russia Should Take a Tough and Well-Defined Stand, (by Vladimir Belous and Pavel Podvig, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, October 24, 1995, p.5)

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

Plutonium Accumulation in Russia: Scientific, Technical, Social, Economical, Environmental and Political Aspects, (proceedings of the seminar, organized by the Environmental and Defense Committees of the State Duma with the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, April 27-28, 1995, Moscow, Allegro-Press, 1995)

Modifying the ABM Treaty or Its Refusal? Russia Should Not Accept The Treaty Amendments, Proposed by the U.S., by Pavel Podvig, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, September 23 1994, p.5)

Modern Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems and the ABM Treaty, (by P.L. Podvig, the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, 1994)

Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Storage and Use of Non-Weapon Grade and Weapon-Grade Plutonium, (proceedings of the International seminar in Moscow in December, 1992, Moscow, Allegro-Press, 1993).

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