Pages in category 'Nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union' The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Protecting Nuclear Secrets. The nuclear weapons program, the crown jewel of Soviet military power, has always been a closely guarded secret. During its early years, the program was directed by the Special Committee chaired by.
Over the past two decades, Russia has implemented arms control agreements and participated in threat reduction programs that have dismantled and downsized substantial parts of its arsenals and made inventory numbers more transparent. At present, Russia is modernizing and recapitalizing its entire arsenal of strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Although the retirement of aging Soviet- era capabilities provides much of the impetus for these efforts, Russia also views modernization as a means to counteract the conventional superiority of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as well as a way to retain its status as a major military power. Given its extensive WMD capabilities, Russia's active participation in nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament efforts is a prerequisite to their global success. Nuclear. The Soviet nuclear weapons program began during World War II and culminated in a successful nuclear test in 1. Russia, as the successor of the Soviet Union, is a nuclear weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and one of the three NPT depository states. According to the latest biannual exchange of data required under the New START Treaty Russia has 1,6. ICBM), submarine- launched ballistic missiles (SLBM), and warheads designated for- heavy bombers. It is estimated that Russia currently has 6. In June 2. 01. 3, Moscow allowed the agreement covering these activities to expire. Some joint programs on nuclear security did continue under a separate accord. Following increased hostilities over the crisis in Ukraine, however, Washington suspended several projects in April 2. Within the BW program, the USSR weaponized the causative agents of anthrax, glanders, Marburg fever, plague, Q fever, smallpox, tularemia, and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis. In the late 1. 96. USSR against biological attacks. However, it remains unclear whether Russia has fulfilled its obligations under Article I of the BTWC. Moscow announced in January 2. December 2. 02. 0. Russia is a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). Current military modernization plans call to reduce that number to 6. A new road mobile ICBM, the RS- 2. Rubezh colloquially known as the . As of January 2. 01. Borey- class SSBNs have entered into service with plans to add an additional five submarines. Russia has been developing a new ALCM, the Kh- 1. State Department determined Russia had tested a GLCM in violation of the INF Treaty, which obligates the United States and Russia . Cochran, U. S.- USSR/Russian Strategic Offensive Nuclear Forces, 1. Washington, DC: National Resources Defense Council, 1. Department of States, . Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn, The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2. Department of State, July 2. Cordesman with Adam Adam C. Hoffman, The Dead Hand (New York: Doubleday, 2. Department of States, . Norris and Hans Kristensen, . State Department, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, July 2. Says Russia Tested Cruise Missile, Violating Treaty.
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