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Author Kristensen, Hans M.

Title From counterforce to minimal deterrence : a new nuclear policy on the path toward eliminating nuclear weapons / Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris, Ivan Oelrich
Published Washington, DC : Federation of American Scientists : Natural Resources Defense Council, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 57 pages) : illustrations
Series Occasional paper ; no. 7
Occasional paper (Federation of American Scientists : Online) ; no. 7.
Summary To realize President Barack Obama's vision of "dramatic reductions" in the number of nuclear weapons, stopping development of new nuclear weapons, taking nuclear weapons off alert, and pursuing the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, radical changes are needed in the four types of U.S. policies that govern nuclear weapons: declaratory, acquisition, deployment, and employment. This report largely concerns itself with employment policy, that is, how the United States actually plans for the use of nuclear weapons, and argues that there should be fundamental changes to the current war plans and the process of how these are formulated and implemented. The logic, content, and procedures of the current employment policy are relics of the Cold War and, if not changed, will hinder the hoped-for deep cuts to the nuclear stockpile and the longer term goal of elimination
Notes April 2009
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-57)
Notes Title from cover screen (viewed Apr 14, 2009)
Mode of access: World Wide Web
System requirements: Adobe Reader
Subject Nuclear arms control.
Nuclear nonproliferation.
Deterrence (Strategy)
Security, International.
Nuclear disarmament -- United States
Nuclear weapons -- United States.
Deterrence (Strategy)
Nuclear arms control.
Nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear nonproliferation.
Nuclear weapons.
Security, International.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Norris, Robert S. (Robert Stan)
Oelrich, Ivan.
Natural Resources Defense Council.
Federation of American Scientists.
Other Titles New nuclear policy on the path toward eliminating nuclear weapons