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Russia, America and missile defense / Tsypkin, Mikhail

Tsypkin, Mikhail	Journal Article
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2012.

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Russia has sharply objected to US plans for ballistic missile defense. The Russian official explanation is that the real purpose of the US missile defense plan is to make it impossible for Russia to retaliate against a US nuclear (or massive conventional) attack, thus making Russia subject to military blackmail by the US. The Russian response has been the result of a sum total of various factors, mostly political and cultural, while the technical capabilities of the proposed system have played a secondary role.

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NATO ; Nuclear Weapons ; Arms Control ; Missile Defense ; Iran ; Russia ;
Conspiracy Theory ; US

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Russian politics, policy-making and American missile defence / Tsypkin, Mikhail

Tsypkin, Mikhail	Journal Article
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2009.

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The American decision to deploy missile defence in Poland endangered the central myth of Putin's regime (Russia's rebirth as a Great Power), challenged the status of Putin as Russia's strongman, and introduced an additional uncertainty into the carefully scripted campaign for succession to Putin. It also hit the raw nerve of Russia's reliance on nuclear weapons. The character of Russian policy-making has guaranteed the worst-case scenario evaluation of the American programme. The Russian elite's world view has magnified the problems resulting from the deployment into fears of a window of vulnerability.

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Nuclear Weapons ; Poland ; Russia ; Russian Politics ; Policy - Making ; American Missile Defence

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