The first in this series Of three articles, published in the September-October 1997 issue of ARMOR. addressed American lank developmenJ during the HbrJd \\brs. This article focuses upon lhe Cold "'b, era prior to the development of the M I Abrams, illustrating the injlutnu oj the Soviet military threat. The desire to field a technologically superior lank that would more than offset Soviet numer...

This paper looks to break with common assumptions of the underdevelopment and isolation of the Soviet computing by studying the history of the Soviet-French cooperation in computer science under the bilateral agreement of 1966. The achievements of this cooperation were largely due to the singular relations between French and Soviet mathematicians, J-L Lions and G. I. Marchuk. Although neither M...

30 years after the end of Cold War, bipolar structure still dominates in nuclear sphere, although certain powers are closing gap with Russia and United States terms strategic arsenals system world politics general is moving towards polycentrism. At same time, as US-Russian relations continue to deteriorate against backdrop ‘Ukrainian crisis’, prospects for dialogue expiration Treaty on Measures...