MOSCOW. July 8 (Interfax-AVN) - The reduction of ceilings for strategic offensive weapons decreases the destabilizing influence of anti-missile defense systems, Major General Vladimir Dvorkin, main advisor of the PR center and leader of the strategic nuclear forces center, said at the Evolution of Strategic Stability seminar in Moscow on Monday.
"Paradoxically it happens due to the fact the system is not capable to parry the first massive attack," Dvorkin stressed.
The nuclear weapons will remain in arsenals of old and new members of "the nuclear club" as the main component of military security provision and "remain in the state for a long time," Dvorkin went on.
"At the same time a considerable difference of new nuclear countries is that they did not undergo "the school" of nuclear containment principles what was established for several past decades. Those states do not have practiced control systems, systems of positive and negative control," Dvorkin stressed.
He did not rule out that "new nuclear countries might consider nuclear components to be a weapon at a battlefield. It poses serious apprehensions towards the possibility of staging regional nuclear conflicts. This circumstance obliges both nuclear supercountries such as the United States and Russia to be especially responsible for the maintenance of global strategic stability," Dvorkin added.