U.S. Nuclear Experts Attach Little Significance to Putin’s Call for Further Arms Reductions

摘要

U.S. arms control advocates and nuclear deterrence experts alike are attaching little importance to RussianrnPresident Vladimir Putin’s recent calls for further arms control reductions, with some suggesting that thernstatements were largely an effort to improve Russia’s global image and political standing. “I think Russia is feelingrnsome pressure from the international community for further progress in US-Russian nuclear arms reductions, andrnRussia does not want to appear, in the eye of the international community, to be the guilty party,” Arms ControlrnAssociation Executive Director Daryl Kimball told NS&D Monitor.