The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. (E.T.)
In December 2021 Russia presented the United States and NATO with a demand to roll back the expansion of NATO military infrastructure in Europe that has taken place since the 1997 Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation, and to stop the further expansion of the alliance, including to admit Ukraine. Russian officials repeatedly stated that if these demands are not met, Russia would adopt new military-technical measures to ensure its security. This presentation will discuss the origins of this crisis, and what steps Russia might take as well as ways that could prevent further deterioration of the security situation in Europe and on Russia’s borders. The talk will draw on a recent article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
About the speaker: Pavel Podvig is with the Princeton Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, and also is Senior Researcher at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, and he runs the "Russian Nuclear Forces" project. He is editor of Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (2004).