Russia To Adopt 1st Strike Nuke Policy: Official

[ironman]

Russia To Adopt 1st Strike Nuke Policy: Official​

By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: 14 Oct 2009 07:26

MOSCOW - Russia will revise its military doctrine to allow a "preventative" nuclear strike against would-be aggressors, a top Kremlin policy-maker was quoted as saying Oct. 14.

Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the powerful security council, said the conditions under which Russia could resort to atomic weapons are being reworked in the main strategy document and will be reviewed by President Dmitry Medvedev by the end of the year.

"The conditions have been revised for the use of nuclear weapons to rebuff an aggression with the use of conventional weapons, not only on a massive-scale but on a regional and even local level," Patrushev told the Izvestia newspaper.

"Variants are under considerations for the use of nuclear weapons depending on the situation and potential of a would-be aggressor," he said.

"In a critical situation for national security, a preventative nuclear strike on an aggressor is not ruled out."

Under its current military doctrine, Russia says it would only carry out a nuclear strike if it were attacked with weapons of mass destruction or if it were the victim of "large-scale aggression" using conventional arms.

Russian and U.S. negotiators are now working furiously to agree on new arms cuts of their nuclear arsenal before a key Cold War-era disarmament treaty expires on December 5.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated the joint drive to achieve new arms reductions by this deadline after talks in Moscow this week.

Since the 1991 Soviet collapse, Russian military planners have relied increasingly on the country's huge nuclear deterrent as the capabilities of its conventional forces have deteriorated.

Patrushev, the former director of Russia's powerful FSB security service, has headed efforts to develop a new military doctrine in recent years to coincide with plans for a radical modernization of Russia's armed forces.

 

[Spring Onion]

Under its current military doctrine, Russia says it would only carry out a nuclear strike if it were attacked with weapons of mass destruction or if it were the victim of "large-scale aggression" using conventional arms.

and the aggresor would be ?

And by large-scale aggression" what Russia means?

Any conventional attack by organised national army of any country ?

 

[arihant]

This is provoking. We are expecting nuclear free world and this steps are keeping the scene behind. This should not be acceptable.

 

[Developereo]

Obama's peace dividend...

 

[arihant]

First dossier of Nobel Prize reach Russia.

 

[Spring Onion]

This is provoking. We are expecting nuclear free world and this steps are keeping the scene behind. This should not be acceptable.

Not provoking but i want to know what and whom Russia means by aggerssion and aggresors

 

[arihant]

Not provoking but i want to know what and whom Russia means by aggerssion and aggresors

As far as I know they don't have enemy. Considering they feel Ukraine issues are just bunch of candies.

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

Not provoking but i want to know what and whom Russia means by aggerssion and aggresors

These are probably OLD but would help you find whom the Russians are Pointing at :

Russia says could use nuclear weapons

MOSCOW - Russia's military chief of staff said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes to protect itself and its allies, the latest aggressive remarks from increasingly assertive Russian authorities.

Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky's comment did not mark a policy shift, military analysts said. Amid disputes with the West over security issues, it may have been meant as a warning that Russia is prepared to use its nuclear might.

"We do not intend to attack anyone, but we consider it necessary for all our partners in the world community to clearly understand ... that to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia and its allies, military forces will be used, including preventively, including with the use of nuclear weapons," Baluyevsky said at a military conference in a remark broadcast on state-run cable channel Vesti-24.

According to the state-run news agency RIA-Novosti, Baluyevsky added that Russia would use nuclear weapons and carry out preventive strikes only in accordance with Russia's military doctrine.

The military doctrine adopted in 2000 says Russia may use nuclear weapons to counter a nuclear attack on Russia or an ally, or a large-scale conventional attack that poses a critical risk to Russia's security.

'Nothing new'
Retired Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin, formerly a top arms control expert with the Russian Defense Ministry, said he saw "nothing new" in Baluyevsky's statement. "He was restating the doctrine in his own words," Dvorkin said.

Moscow-based military analyst Alexander Golts said that when Russia broke with stated Soviet-era policy in the 2000 doctrine and declared it could use nuclear weapons first against an aggressor, it reflected the decline of Russia's conventional forces in the decade following the 1991 Soviet collapse.

"Baluyevsky's statement means that, as before, we cannot count on our conventional forces to counter aggression," Golts told Ekho Moskvy radio. "It means that as before, the main factor in containing aggression against Russia is nuclear weapons."

Putin and other Russian officials have stressed the need to maintain a powerful nuclear deterrent and reserved the right to carry out preventive strikes. But in most of their public remarks on preventive strikes, Russian officials have not specifically mentioned nuclear weapons.

Baluyevsky spoke amid persistent disputes between Moscow and the West over issues including U.S. plans for missile defense facilities in former Soviet satellites, NATO members' refusal to ratify an updated European conventional arms treaty, and Kosovo's bid for independence from Serbia.

Like Golts, Moscow-based military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said Russia plays up its nuclear deterrent because of its weakness in terms of conventional arms. "We threaten the West that in any kind of serious conflict, we'll go nuclear almost immediately," he said.

But in the absence of a real threat from the West, he said, "It's just talk."
Russia: could use nuclear weapons - Russia- msnbc.com

Russia to revive long-range bomber patrols
Move a show of Moscow’s military power amid chilled U.S. relations

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he had ordered the military to resume regular long-range flights of strategic bombers, a show of Russia’s resurgent military power which comes amid a chill in relations with the United States.

Speaking after Russian and Chinese forces completed major war games exercises for the first time on Russian turf, Putin said a halt in long-range bombers’ flights after the Soviet collapse had affected Russia’s security as other nations had continued such missions — an oblique reference to the United States.

“I have made a decision to resume regular flights of Russian strategic aviation,” Putin said in televised remarks. “We proceed from the assumption that our partners will view the resumption of flights of Russia’s strategic aviation with understanding.”

In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the U.S. was not troubled by the Russian decision.

“We certainly are not in the kind of posture we were with what used to be the Soviet Union,” said the spokesman, Sean McCormack. “It’s a different era. If Russia feels as though they want to take some of these old aircraft out of mothballs and get them flying again, that’s their decision.”

'A new life'
The Russian-Chinese war games, which took place near the Ural Mountain city of Chelyabinsk, coincided with Russian air force maneuvers involving strategic bombers which ranged far over the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans.

Putin said that 20 Russian bombers were involved in the exercise.

“Starting today, such tours of duty would be conducted regularly and on the strategic scale,” Putin said. “Our pilots have been grounded for too long, they are happy to start a new life.”

Soviet bombers routinely flew such missions to areas from which nuclear-tipped cruise missiles could be launched at the United States, but stopped in the post-Soviet economic meltdown.

“Starting in 1992, the Russian Federation unilaterally suspended strategic aviation flights to remote areas,” Putin said. “Regrettably, other nations haven’t followed our example. That has created certain problems for Russia’s security.”

Russia to revive bomber patrols - Russia- msnbc.com

 

[pmukherjee]

and the aggresor would be ?

And by large-scale aggression" what Russia means?

Any conventional attack by organised national army of any country ?

What doubts do you have Jana? Ofcourse the Russians are talking about China. Only China can carry out 'aggression with the use of conventional weapons, not only on a massive-scale but on a regional and even local level.' I cant think of any other country which could attack Russia (if it wanted) with overwhelming conventional force to seriously threaten Russia. I thought it was obvious.

 

[pmukherjee]

This is provoking. We are expecting nuclear free world and this steps are keeping the scene behind. This should not be acceptable.

You are right, a nuclear free world should be our aim. But in the meanwhile, till the world is ready to go that route, we have to protect ourselves and our national interests. Russia realises that it can no longer match China conventionally. Hence this step. Maybe there is a lesson in all this for India??

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

^^
Obcession is some times counterproductive in both Arguments and Health .

 

[AliFarooq]

Indians really hate china and not vice versa

 

[pmukherjee]

Indians really hate china and not vice versa

Yes? Then kindly tell us which country has a conventional force strong enough to force Russia to abandon its no first use policy? Definitely not USA/NATO as they would never get the consensus to attack Russia in the first place. Moreover there are no major issues worth going to war over. It is certainly not Georgia or Poland or even Ukraine. It is only China with which Russia has major outstanding territorial issues over which they have already fought a war in 1969. China is certainly strong enough conventionally to be a threat to Russia. Russia, however has a very large edge in nuclear weapons over China.

If you think rationally without your anti-Indian bias you would come to the same conclusion.

 

[sathruvinasakh]

Indians really hate china and not vice versa

I suggest you to refine your post.It is China to be blamed for all the mess in the sub-continent today.China hates democracy and so India.Chinese failed to keep the borders tidy.They are the one who initiated war against India and proved every single moment.

On the other hand India is only playing a defencive posture.

If we can win over the people with words and good behaviour then the other option left with is only war.
China is taking advantage of its military and its conventional edge over russia.I might attest it as a good move by Russia by ruling out the NFU policy.

Might be its the time for India as well to change its nuclear policy.Whether the TN is a reality or fantasy leave it aside.And India can still nuke its agressors with the well designed fission ones.
India shoudlnt be invading any country and at the same time it shouldnt let any other do the same to its territory.Peace.

 

[trickey]

Not provoking but i want to know what and whom Russia means by aggerssion and aggresors

The thing with first strikers is even they do not know. They like to say that the ambiguity is deliberate. If Siberia were hit, Russia wouldn't even notice. Heck, even a thermonuclear scale airburst on Siberia didn't kill anyone(June 30, 1908).