By Manlio Dinucci | Global Research | October 18, 2018 The B61-12, the new US nuclear bomb which replaces the B-61 deployed in Italy and other European countries, will begin production in less than a year. The announcement was made officially by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). It reveals that the revision of the […]
Sputnik – October 10, 2018 The United States started deploying Aegis Ashore missile defense systems, as well as MK-41 Vertical Launching Systems tubes that could be used to launch intermediate-range cruise missiles in Europe in June, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Deployment of the US Mk-41 launching systems in Romania and Poland contradicts the Intermediate-Range Nuclear […]
By Andrei AKULOV | Strategic Culture Foundation | 26.09.2018 There have been ups and downs in the relationship between Russia (the Soviet Union) and the US, but both nations have become accustomed to the fact that their arsenals of offensive nuclear weapons are under the control of an agreement to prevent an arms race in […]
Sputnik – March 2, 2018 Moscow’s Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has refuted the US State Department’s accusations of violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty by possessing the new strategic weapons announced in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address. “Apparently, the US State Department is poorly proficient on the subject. Putin spoke about strategic armaments […]
By Alex GORKA | Strategic Culture Foundation | 11.12.2017 The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty – one of the most significant arms-reduction accomplishments of the Cold War – marked its thirtieth anniversary on December 8. It was signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 to ban US and Soviet ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with […]
Sputnik – 09.12.2017 The INF treaty, which prohibits the development, deployment and testing of ground-launched ballistic or cruise missiles with ranges between 300 and 3,400 miles, celebrated its 30th anniversary on December 8. “The United States has long been claiming that we are allegedly exceeding the limits of the Treaty prohibiting the deployment of cruise […]
Sputnik – December 8, 2017 The US Commerce Department will impose sanctions on Russian companies that have provided technology to help develop the new weapon outlawed by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Politico reported on Friday. US media also reported, citing a senior administration official that US President Donald Trump has approved these new […]
RT | October 12, 2017 Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that the treaty signed between the US and the Soviet Union on the elimination of nuclear and conventional missiles is “in jeopardy,” stressing that scrapping the 1987 deal could end in “disastrous” consequences. “This December will mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the treaty […]
Sputnik – August 6, 2107 US media reported that Congress is preparing several bills, the provisions of which would require the Pentagon to violate the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the United States and Russia. According to Politico, the Senate will soon debate a provision in its version of the defense policy bill, which would […]
By Andrei AKULOV | Strategic Culture Foundation | 05.08.2017 The House and Senate are currently considering defense authorization legislation which, if passed into law, would start dismantling some of the bedrock agreements of US-Russian arms control – the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), as well as longstanding US–Russia arms control efforts. The treaty eliminated all […]
