Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future

seminal chapter in a forthcoming book, published by
Routledge, based on an FOI (Freedom of Information)
conference in Sweden (October 4-5, 2010), in which
he examines Russian perspectives on network-centric
warfare.
ANDREI SHOUMIKHIN is Senior Analyst at the
National Institute for Public Policy. His previous assignments
were as Director of the Washington Office
of the Moscow Public Science Foundation and coordinator
of the Foundation’s projects in the United States;
he was associated with the Institute of USA and Canada
Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and
headed the USA Institute’s Center for the Middle East
and Conflict Resolution. Dr. Shoumikhin was responsible
for analyses of U.S. foreign policy and the preparation
of analyses and recommendations for use by
the Russian president, parliamentary committees, and
various ministries, with special emphasis on conflict
resolution and the relationship between the United
States, Russia, and the developing world. He was
President of the Center for Conflict Resolution and
also served as an interpreter for the United Nations
Secretariat and the Central Committee of the Communist
Party in Moscow. Dr. Shoumikhin is a graduate
of the Moscow Institute for Foreign Languages and the
United Nations Translation and Interpreter Course.
He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Institute
of USA and Canada Studies.
NIKOLAI N. SOKOV is a Senior Research Associate
at James Martin Center for Nonproliferation
Studies at Monterey Institute of International Studies,
a Graduate School of Middlebury College. He
worked at the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies
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