On May 12, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “Russia-USA: A New Era of Nuclear Deterrence?” Dimitri Simes, President, Center for the National Interest, Washington; Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Columbia University and Director of the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative; Valery Garbuzov, Director of the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dmitry Stefanovich, researcher at the Centre for International Security, IMEMO RAS participate. The discussion was moderated by Andrey Sushentsov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, Dean of the Faculty of International Relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Foreign Ministry.