Sistemul Aegis Ashore (Deveselu) din România, între SUA și Rusia.

One of the key areas of cooperation between URSS/Russia and US even during tense periods was strategic stability and treaties were signed in order, to have a security environment that was less prone to miscalculations or incidents that could lead to a nuclear war. The strategic stability between the two nuclear super-powers has deteriorated over time and now we have only one treaty that limits the number of strategic offensive arms between the parties that will expire in 2026. The article looks at ballistic missile defense systems as one of strategic stability component and questions its need for future arms control agreements. With both parties interested in a dialog on arms control it is likely that ballistic missile defense systems will be part of the negotiation process between Russia and US. Romania been a country that hosts such a NA TO system on its territory needs to pay attention to those discussions and to evaluate what options are most favorable to its security to communicate them to our strategic partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]