(November 16, 2009) Moscow–Ongoing arms cuts talks between Russia and the U.S. have seen differences on inspection and verification procedures, the chief of the General Staff said on Thursday. Moscow and Washington are negotiating a replacement for the current Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), the basis for Russian-U.S. strategic nuclear disarmament, which expires on [...]

(November 14, 2009) Moscow–The preparation of a new agreement between Russia and the United States in the field of strategic offensive arms has entered the concluding stage. The eighth and, Moscow hopes, last round of Russian-American consultations on this problem opened yesterday in Geneva. Less than a month remains to secure a new strategic offensive [...]

(November 3, 2009) A successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty might address U.S. plans to deploy long-range, conventionally armed missiles, Russia suggested yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 2). The U.S. Defense Department has proposed deploying by 2015 a small number of long-range conventional missiles that could hit targets halfway around the world with just [...]

(June 29, 2009) UNITED NATIONS (IPS/GIN) – The world’s biggest military spenders last year were countries which were either permanent members of the United Nations Security Council or aspiring to hold that privileged rank, according to the latest figures released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The United States, China, France, Britain and [...]

(July 06, 2009) President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev on Monday agreed a target of cutting vast Cold War arsenals of deployed nuclear warheads by around a third from current levels to 1,500-1,675 each. [read more]

TOKYO: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear test is unlikely to spark a nuclear arms race in Asia, but analysts say Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) may seek to beef up their missile defenses and pre-emptive capabilities against Pyongyang. [read more]

VOA News / May 13, 2009 09:23 KST Russia is a member of the six-party talks aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program. It has often sided with China to prevent tough UN sanctions against Pyongyang. The six-party talks began in August, 2003 as a forum focusing on North Korea’s [...]

Over the last decade global military spendng has increased by 45 percent and the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea account for more than 65 percent of it. [read more]

17 Apr 2009 Agence France-Presse DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AFP)–More than one thousand soldiers from Russia, China and Central Asia have arrived in Tajikistan for three days of joint military exercises, the country’s defence ministry said Friday. The war games are being held under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional group dominated by [...]

PRAGUE — Hours after North Korea’s missile test, President Obama on Sunday called for new United Nations sanctions and laid out a new approach to American nuclear disarmament policy — one intended to strengthen the United States and its allies in halting proliferation.