Russia’s Military and the World’s Post-Arms Control Future

By Wilson Center

While everyone is preoccupied with the COVID-19, public protests, and electoral politics, the world’s three largest nuclear powers are busy modernizing their arsenals. They are doing this in a world that will soon be left without any strategic arms control treaties. Is nuclear still the world’s most powerful deterrent? What do Russian and all other major military forces want? The Russia File discusses this and other questions with Michael Kofman, Director of the Russia Studies Program at CNA.