Ядерные аспекты военной политики и российско-американские отношения

Abstract

The article analyzes the systemic factors associated with the beginning of the transition processes that accompany changes in the state of Humanity as a single self-developing system that affect both domestic political processes and interstate relations. It is noted that the effect of compression of historical time is a challenge for democratic systems of public administration, and leads to a long-term trend of instability of the international situation, including Russian-American relations. There are two factors that predetermined the military-political features of the current system of Russian-American relations, in particular, in the field of arms control. The views on the problems of strategic stability are presented. The article analyzes the doctrinal views of Russia and the United States on the problems of nuclear deterrence. It is noted that the approaches to nuclear deterrence of the two countries are logical and, at the same time, significantly different. It is shown that these differences are determined to a decisive extent by the dependence of the approaches of Russia and the United States to nuclear deterrence on geopolitical factors. In analyzing the problems of strategic stability, it is concluded that in the transition to multilateral negotiations, it is unacceptable to maintain the link of strategic stability to a state of mutual assured destruction. Suggests approaches to the transition from mutual assured destruction to mutual assured as safe. To this end, it is proposed at this stage to focus not on reducing nuclear weapons, but on reducing the risk of unintentional use of nuclear weapons. It is suggested that reducing this risk could be a unifying goal for all nuclear-weapon States and lay the groundwork for negotiations on nuclear weapons in a multilateral format.