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Do Unto Others: Toward a Defensible Nuclear Doctrine

IN THIS ISSUE: Toward a defensible nuclear doctrine, N. Korea to restart reactor, N. Korean secrecy on bomb test fuels speculation on nuclear advances, Iran cools nuclear work, Turkey's regional policy protected by US bomb, Russia's third Borey-class sub to start trials in June.

Published on April 2, 2013
 

Do Unto Others: Toward a Defensible Nuclear Doctrine

George Perkovich | Carnegie Book

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The debate surrounding U.S. nuclear policy focuses too narrowly on reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the American arsenal toward zero. More important is preventing the use of nuclear weapons in whatever numbers they exist.

President Barack Obama should articulate a narrowed framework for the legitimate use of nuclear weapons that the United States believes would be defensible for others to follow as long as nuclear weapons remain.   Full Article



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