Interviews with experts of «Oral History of Nuclear Nonproliferation: Voices from Russia» project

An integral part of the project is conducting interviews with former Russian and Soviet military personnel, diplomats, nuclear scientists – participants of key events in the field of nonproliferation and arms control. Most of the interviews were conducted in a studio with professional filming and are available on PIR Center’s YouTube channel.

Text interviews

Sergio Duarte: on NPT and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Linton Brooks: on START-I negotiations, arms control and multilateral diplomacy

Viktor Koltunov: on Russian-American negotiations, strategic offensive arms and the arms control regime (in Russ.)

Vladimir Rybachenkov: on the specifics of cooperation between the Russian Federation and the United States on nuclear nonproliferation issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s (In Russ.)

Yuri Nazarkin: about the Treaty of Tlatelolco, Negotiations on START-1 and diplomatic work in “the era of glasnost” (in Russ.)

Video interview

Alexey Arbatov: on the negotiations on START-1, the prospects for renunciation of nuclear weapons and new nuclear states (in Russ., with English with subtitles)

Sergei Antipov: about the Chernobyl accident, the Nunn-Lugar Program and the Partnership against WMD (in Russ., with English subtitles)

Andrey Malov: on the Convention on Inhumane Weapons, SOR and the militarization of outer space (In Russ., with English subtitles)

Vladimir Kuchinov: on the NPT, the principles of nuclear exports and the Iranian nuclear program (In Russ.)

Victor Slipchenko: on WMD non-proliferation, CTBT and the threat of “nuclear terrorism” (in Russ.)

Lieutenant General Evgeny Buzhinsky: on the history of the negotiations on the Strategic Offensive Reductions and the CFE Treaty, the issue of missile defense in Russian-American relations (In Russ., with English subtitles)

Lieutenant General Vasily Lata: on the lessons of the Cold War, the Euromissile crisis and Ukraine (In Russ.)

Alexander Fedorov: about the open reports of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia in 1993 and 1995 (In Russ., with English subtitles)

Colonel-General Vladimir Verkhovtsev: about Evgeny P. Maslin, the 12th Main Directorate of the RF Ministry of Defense and the challenges of the 1980s (In Russ.)

Colonel-General Viktor Esin: on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty and the arms race in the Asia-Pacific region (in Russ.)