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Joint Concept of U.S. and Russian Provisions for the Ensurance of Global Stability Under Conditions of the New World Order
Joint Concept of U.S. and Russian Provisions for the Ensurance of Global Stability Under Conditions of the New World Order
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Bipolar Strategic Arrangement Preservation as a Geopolitical Imperative Strategic nuclear forces of two great powers -- the United States of America and the Soviet Union -- have evidently become a decisive factor for the almost half century of calm on the world level, as their mutual deployment would have brought the world to a total catastrophe without victors or losers. The strategic nuclear forces, the ban on deployment of which has not yet become an absolute political and military imperative, have mainly caused limitation or, to be more precise, impossibility of the traditional wars between nuclear states, as nobody could have given reasonable guarantees for nondeployment of a tactical, or in later stages, strategic nuclear weapon by a losing party, if it were on the brink of a national catastrophe.
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, and in the Asia-Pacific region. Creation of a multipolar geostrategic nuclear world system is a direct path to an apocalypse, since several Third World states with newly developed or almost developed nuclear weapons experience a much higher temptation to resolve territorial, religiousethnic and other problems by military means.
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3. Adoption -- under the aegis of the United Nations, by the worlds most advanced nations, and under the leadership of the United States and Russia -- of effective measures designed to block the buildup of strategically dangerous nuclear and conventional weapons in the third world countries, especially in countries with non-democratic authoritarian regimes; banning the development in any country of new, even more inhumane weapons of mass destruction; and reduction by treaties or under compulsion of stockpiled strategic weapons by involving all countries in this process.
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. a missile attack waming system, capable of providing timely warning to the world community about an accidental or deliberate launch of missiles, and able to determine the coordinates of the launch and detonation sites, and the details about the flight path of the weapon urlits; a system of monitoring outer space, capable of warning countries about military changes in outer space, and also able to monitor compliance with international treaties on space use monitoring of testing of strategic nuclear and conventional weapons in various physical environments; an automated command point of the United Nations for receiving, processing and transmitting data used in the total assessment of the strategic situation in the world.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGIES TO BE RESTRICTED FOR TRANSFER TO OTHER COUNTRIES Technologies and scientific-technical documentation that should not be transferred to other countries include the results of basic, applied, and design research in the area of developing new, and improving existing, types of following weapons: nuclear weapons and weapons based on new physical principles; radar, television, infrared, laser, correlation (by area relief and target "portrait") , radiometric, and combined self-guided warheads for guiding high-precision strike weapons; thermovision systems and control (guidance)
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for the accelerated development of strategically dangerous weapons in a number of Third World countries, it is necessary to design a balanced and coordinated system of measures, which could include the following activities: a directed social and economic support of primarily Russian scientists and specialists during the period of transition from centralized to market economies taking place in the states of the former Soviet Union; reorientation of scientists and specialists who used to work for the military-industrial complex into other research work that would be similar in form and content, and their guaranteed employment, mainly in their own country; establishment of controlled contractual migration to developed countries and contractual assignments through the United Nations to developing countries for conducting civil research aimed at reconstruction and development; use of their knowledge and experience by involving them in solving ecological problems, primarily related to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station and other industrial accidents, and disposal of weapons and munitions according to the conversion plans and reductions in armaments and armed forces; use of these specialists in international projects, primarily joint projects with the United States, designed to create and develop technical systems of global security; ~ designates equipment and technologies that may be classified as dual-use technologies: their export and information transfer should be controlled within the framework of agreements on dual-use technologies and should not include their militarized versions.
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, in international and regional scientific functions (congresses, symposiums, conferences, seminars, expositions, and science schools)
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