Russia worries that its nuclear-tipped missiles, based largely in static locations, might be destroyed on the ground by a preemptive strike by long-range US missiles, and its retaliatory punch weakened by US ballistic missile defense. Though it can paint no scenario in which this would ever occur, it not only drags its heels on further arms-reduction talks, but insists on keeping a thousand or so of its strategic nuclear weapons on launch-within-minutes alert status.
俄罗斯担心其大部分位于静态发射场的核弹会被美国先发制人的长程导弹摧毁，而其报复性环境会因美国弹道导弹防御系统而遭到削弱。尽管没有迹象表明会发生这一幕，但这不但仍会拖累后续核裁军谈判，而且会继续要求保留一千枚左右的可随时发射战略核武器的警告。