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The Justification for Establishing in Russia a Commission on Non-Proliferation of Potentially Strategically Dangerous Technologies
Pages 155-160

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From page 155...
... Such critical opinions about the dangers of nuclear weapons are mentioned here only to dispel the illusions of imaginary safety resulting from strict compliance with provisions of signed treaties on limiting and reducing nuclear weapons. The world community, if it is really concerned about its future, should decisively move from a multitude of declarations on universal disarmament and endless steps of cuts of nuclear weapons to strict legal measures, maybe even forceful measures of self-defense against the nuclear Apocalypse.
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From page 156...
... From these circumstances quite naturally grows the number of UN members who support strict adherence to the provisions of the treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and who suppose that it should resolve the following problems: to establish a barrier to proliferation of nuclear weapons in other countries; to promote a reduction of nuclear and conventional weapons; to safeguard peace-Ioving countries from international nuclear terrorism and blackmail; to widen peaceful nuclear cooperation between states. The Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was approved by the UN General Assembly in June 1968 and entered into force March 5, 1970.
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From page 157...
... , although they are quite adequate for the United States, considering its remoteness from possible "hot spots" of the world. it would also be incorrect to consider such missiles as carriers of only nuclear weapons, since, in the hands of an aggressor, these missiles armed with conventional weapons may become a formidable factor of war or international terrorism.
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From page 158...
... and to an analogous Commission in Russia. The collective activities of these two entities should be extremely open and trusting, which would not affect the defensive capabilities of Russia, since it has a similar or slightly lower scientific and technical potential in the area of developing strategic weapons.
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From page 159...
... . Strategic nuclear weapons, strategic defense weapons.
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