Nikolai Sokov

Senior Fellow

[email protected]
Vienna, Austria

Background

Beginning in 1981, Dr. Nikolai Sokov worked at the Institute of US and Canadian Studies and the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. From 1987-92 he worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and later Russia, and participated in START I and START II negotiations as well as in a number of summit and ministerial meetings.

He has been invited to speak at numerous conferences and provide briefings to many organizations and governmental agencies, including:

• US Department of State
• US Department of Defense
• US Department of Energy
• Various committees of US Congress
• US national laboratories
• UK Defense Academy
• International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique
• Tomsk Polytechnical University

Education

Dr. Nikolai N. Sokov has a PhD from the University of Michigan (1996) and (the Soviet equivalent of a PhD) Candidate of Historical Sciences degree from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (1986). He graduated from Moscow State University in 1981.

CNS Work

• Russia Tests Two New Missiles on the Same Day
  Russia’s tests were advertised as a response to Eastern European missile defense, but are they?
• [RUSSIAN] The Process of Nuclear Arms Reduction and Arms Control in US-Russian Relations
  A monograph published in Russia by A. Dyakov, Yevgeni Myasnikov, and Nikolai Sokov.
• Russian’s White Paper on WMD Nonproliferation
  A detailed overview of Russia’s nonproliferation policy and initiatives.
• The Prospects of Russian Mediation of the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
  Attempts, constraints and prospects of Russia’s policy.
• The Future of Russia’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Force Clarified
  New land mobility systems could require an amendment to the Start I treaty.
• Military Exercises in Russia
  Naval deterrence failures are compensated by strategic rocket success.
• “Suitcase Nukes:” Permanently Lost Luggage
  Nikolai Sokov February 13, 2004 View “Suitcase Nukes:” A Reassessment On February 8, a London-based Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, reported that in 1998, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda had bought nuclear weapons from Ukraine using the services of a Ukrainian scientist, whose first name was Viktor. Multiple news sources immediately linked this story to the 1997 statement by the late General ...
• Terrorist Attacks on America: Questions and Answers from CNS Specialists
  Do the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings represent a major US intelligence failure? Reply prepared by Dr. Phillip Saunders, Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program By definition these attacks represent an intelligence failure, because the intelligence and law enforcement communities did not provide advance warning that they were coming. That said, it is extremely difficult to provide ...
• The “Tactical Nuclear Weapons Scare” of 2001
  Approaches and positions towards tactical nuclear weapons will need rethinking and reformulation.
• The Kursk Accident
  Updates on the efforts to rescue sailors from the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk.

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Bibliography

Dr. Nikolai N. Sokov is the author or co-author of several monographs, including:

• Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: Examining the Validity of Nuclear Deterrence (2010)
• Reducing and Regulating Tactical (Nonstrategic) Nuclear Weapons in Europe (2009)
• Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament (2009)
• Evolution of Nuclear Strategy in U.S. and Russia and its Implications for Arms Control (2003)
• Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Options for Control (2000)
• Russian Strategic Modernization: Past and Future (2000)
• Russian Policy Toward the Baltics: What the West Can Expect and What It Could Do (1999)

He is also co-author and co-editor of the first Russian-language college-level textbook on nuclear nonproliferation (Yadernoe Nerasprostranenie, Vol.I-II, PIR Center, 1st edition 2000, 2nd edition 2002).