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AKA: Physik und Abrüstung

AKA 4: Strategische Stabilität

AKA 4.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 29, 2001, 14:00–15:00, R 221

Precision Guided Weapons and Strategic Balance — •Eugene Miasnikov — Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, Moskau/Russland

The presentation discusses counter force capabilities of conventional precision guided weapons (PGW) and the role of PGWs in U.S.-Russian strategic balance. Importance of this problem is underscored by the fact that development of U.S. precision guided weapons advanced to a new qualitative level in the last decade, and new types of PGWs can present a real threat to the Russian Strategic Forces in foreseeable future. Current U.S. military plans and arms control policy cause agitation of the Russian side on the background of its growing economical problems and further degradation of its conventional forces. Moreover, the Russian positive attitudes toward the intentions of the West were severely undermined by a sequence of events in the end of 1990-s: NATO expansion to the East, NATO military operation in Yugoslavia and U.S. preparations for deployment of the National Missile Defense system. The listed events and tendencies are increasingly often perceived in Russia as parts of one chain aimed at depriving Russia of its nuclear deterrence capability, the last symbol of superpower