Agreements are imminent on strategic arms, chemical weapons, conventional forces and nuclear testing.
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Taken together, these instruments have come to be called "soft power" (as opposed to the traditional kind of "hard power" represented by armies, navies, air forces and nuclear weapons).
The adjective "sole" has become a key measurement in diplomatic circles where U.S. nuclear forces have long been seen as an impediment to stopping nuclear proliferation.
Under the strategic circumstances of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, all that was necessary was to ensure the survivability of nuclear forces because very little could survive on the ground should a nuclear war erupt.
In accordance with the Moscow Treaty (see International Treaties) and U.S. national security policy guidance, U.S. nuclear forces will be reduced to between 1, 700 and 2, 200 operationally deployed strategic nuclear warheads by 2012.
Its essential policy is to have sufficient forces to inflict heavy casualties on any attacker in the event of a war, while relying upon its nuclear forces to deter any conflict in the first place.
Nor can the more exotic particles responsible for the weak and strong nuclear forces.
And we agreed that NATO should be prepared to considered reciprocal reductions in non-strategic nuclear forces deployed in Europe.
Electromagnetism, and also the strong and weak nuclear forces, are confined to their membranes, and thus to this universe.
These interact through electromagnetism, and also through the strong and weak nuclear forces.
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They do so via electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.
Consequently, in the interest of maximizing the salability of these indirect means of constraining nuclear forces, some of their champions have simply dissembled.
President Bush, in particular, has proclaimed a powerful "double hit" with his initiatives on short-range nuclear forces (SNF) and conventional weapons arms control.
It would appear no more in our interest to pursue a similarly disadvantaged position when it comes to capabilities necessary for effective nuclear forces.
This danger is particularly acute since Putin has embarked upon a program of rebuilding Russia's military, with special emphasis on modernizing its nuclear forces.
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GLCM's were eventually scrapped as part of the terms of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.
To fold gravity into quantum mechanics, they argue, gravity, like electromagnetism and the nuclear forces, needs to be quantized, to be reduced to the exchange of special particles.
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This article reports that Russian nuclear forces are continuing not only to be targeted against the United States -- but to exercise periodic attacks against it as well.
While operationally deployed strategic nuclear forces are being reduced in number, the U.S. will continue to maintain a responsive force to remain prepared for any immediate or unexpected contingencies.
Russia also expressed opposition to the plan, and said that it would seek agreement from the US that its missile defence system was not aimed at Russia's nuclear forces.
"We can and will change the size, the composition, the character of our nuclear forces in a way that reflects the reality that the Cold War is over, " Bush said.
One upshot of this gambit is renewed energy behind another hardy perennial on the anti-nuclear community's agenda: the idea of "de-alerting" of U.S. -- and, ostensibly, Russian -- nuclear forces.
Some statements from senior administration officials have gone so far as to call into question whether U.S. nuclear forces will continue to consist of a triad altogether, let alone one receiving the requisite modernization.
It will also require the United States to make substantial additional investments in its nuclear forces in order to give its smaller deterrent arsenal the redundancy and military effectiveness that it has at present.
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Start made dramatic reductions in nuclear forces of some 80% but the key point at this moment is that it contains binding agreements on verification and when the treaty runs out so do those commitments.
U.S. military planners spent the next 50 years revising and refining the requirements of deterrence, spelling out in great detail the performance characteristics required of U.S. nuclear forces to assure they were both survivable and credible.
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"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.
In 1983, the issue was whether the NATO alliance would proceed with its agreed plan to deploy hundreds of Pershing II ballistic missiles and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in five Western European nations (collectively known as Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces or INF).
In other words, President Bush risks having a unilateral decision to reduce American strategic nuclear forces by two-thirds over the next decade morphed by his Secretary of State into a binding bilateral agreement, replete with verification mechanisms carried forward from earlier arms control treaties.
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