Why have the Soviets thus far refused to permit U.S. inspectors at their strategic missile production facilities?
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Yet despite great scientific and technological superiority in past decades, U.S. strategic missile and nuclear deterrence protections under the current administration continue to erode.
Russian experts and officials have this view because they believe that America made a tacit commitment not to develop an extended strategic missile defense.
Nikolay Solovtsov, commander of the Strategic Missile Troops, was recently quoted by Moscow Interfax-AVN Online as saying that "not a single Russian launcher" with "remaining service life" will be withdrawn under a new agreement.
"Russia will have the right to opt out of the treaty if qualitative and quantitative parameters of the U.S. strategic missile defense begin to significantly effect the efficiency of Russian strategic nuclear forces, " Mr. Lavrov told the AP.
But even the former head of the Russian Strategic Missile Troops, noting the capabilities of a recent Iranian "space vehicle" launch, predicted that Iran would have "ballistic missiles with a range of 3, 500-4, 000 kilometers or even more, " possibly in the next few years.
At least one strategic ballistic missile submarine will fire from the Barents Sea.
This asymmetry is not crucial at the present level of strategic-missile deployment, since there are enough weapons to punch through these defenses.
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"It may be a special, mobile, non-strategic anti-missile force, " Ivashov told a news conference.
Dr. Schlesinger also addressed the outdated "bi-polar" thinking that seems to animate the nuclear abolition movement and the need not only to reject such notions but also to pursue, in light of the character of the post-Cold War world, periodic low-yield underground testing, nuclear modernization and the deployment of strategic anti-missile defenses as soon as they are available.
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We discussed a range of strategic issues, including missile defense, and resolved to continue to work through some of the difficult problems involved there.
They also discussed strategic issues, including missile defense.
Russia is being rewarded for signing onto an arms control agreement they need much more than we do with far-reaching and ominous concessions (notably, deep cuts in the numbers of U.S. missiles and bombers and restrictions on our strategic conventional arms and missile defenses).
In addition, it directed that responsibility for work on ground-based theater missile defenses be shifted from the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization where it is currently managed as part of a coordinated, integrated program of ballistic missile defense to the U.S. Army.
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Operation Pillar of Defense has seen IDF launch a coordinated campaign that not only targeted high-ranking officials, but also long-range missile sites and other strategic targets across Gaza.
It is the only place on earth where, under the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the United States was allowed to test its strategic interceptor missiles, a key component of President Bush's missile-defence programme, sometimes known as Star Wars II.
Hoss is that rare combination of technical expert -- from cyber to missile defense -- and strategic thinker, whether it was updating our nuclear posture or preparing our military for 21st-century missions.
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In the lead-up to the elections, the international diplomatic backlash against Israel was underplayed and the strategic meaning of Hamas's continued missile war was widely ignored by both Kadima and the media.
By making the United States pay for its right to deploy missile defenses with cuts in strategic nuclear forces if Moscow has its way, at levels below 1500 warheads this country would be driven into an imprudent, if not reckless, minimum deterrence posture .
In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advanced cruise missile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.
By making the United States pay for its right to deploy missile defenses with cuts in strategic nuclear forces -- if Moscow has its way, at levels below 1500 warheads -- this country would be driven into an imprudent, if not reckless, minimum deterrence posture .
In other words, under any foreseeable circumstances, U.S. investment in an effort to mimic Soviet mobile missile programs is unlikely to produce strategic benefits commensurate with the cost in defense resources.
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Ignoring indications of growing Russian hostility to US strategic interests - most clearly evidenced in Russia's opposition to the deployment of US anti-missile batteries in the Czech Republic and Poland and in Russia's strategic relations with Iran and Syria - Gates advocated building "collaborative and cooperative relations" with the Russian military.
The Shihab-3 missile, for instance, which forms the backbone of Iran's strategic arm threatening Israel and its Arab neighbors, is simply an Iranian adaptation of North Korea's Nodong missile technology.
That is why the acquisition of a Belarusian anti-aircraft missile system of Russian technology plays the strategic role he claims.
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Arguably, a still more ominous threat is that posed by another strategic development: the burgeoning prospect of significant ballistic missile proliferation in the Third World.
This "red-button" is obviously envisioned as the tactical counterpart to the strategic veto over U.S. anti-missile systems that Russia feels the Obama administration has effectively afforded it.
Instead, Mr. Obama is negotiating drastic nuclear weapons reductions with Russia, even as he eviscerates our missile defense capabilities, apparently believing unilateral strategic arms cutbacks will entrance Moscow and persuade rogue proliferators to dismantle their programs.
Then, too, as both Kerry and Clinton made clear, the administration plans to ignore Syria's support for Iraqi, Palestinian and Lebanese terrorism, its nuclear proliferation activities and its massive ballistic missile arsenal, as well as its strategic alliance with Iran.
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