| Description |
1 online resource (61 pages) : color illustrations, color map, color photographs |
| Contents |
Foreword: Toward a new NATO nuclear posture, Ernest J. Moniz and Sam Nunn. -- Key findings. -- Chapter 1: What is NATO's nuclear posture? Steve Andreasen, Isabelle Williams, Brian Rose. -- Chapter 2: Challenges for maintaining NATO's nuclear posture: risks, credibility, and cost, Steven Andreasen, Isabelle Williams, Brian Rose. -- Chapter 3: B61-12 guided nuclear bomb, Hans M. Kristensen. -- Chapter 4: Supporting the DCA mission, Hans M. Kristensen. -- Chapter 5: B61-12 integration on allied aircraft, Hans M. Kristensen. -- Chapter 6: NATO nuclear sharing: consultation, Simon Lunn. -- Chapter 7: NATO nuclear sharing: operational factors and procedures, Simon Lunn. -- Endnotes |
| Summary |
NATO's security requires a hard look at and new approaches to NATO deterrence and defense through the prism of reducing the risk of nuclear use. Forward-deployed U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe increase the risk of accidents, blunders, or catastrophic terrorism and invite pre-emption. Given these added risks, it is past time to revisit whether these forward-based weapons are essential for military deterrence and political reassurance. The Trump administration's National Security Strategy of December 2017 commits to this continued deployment without presenting the considered analysis that would emerge from a hard look. The chapters in this report, written by experts and practitioners in European security and nuclear weapons, provide a foundation for that hard look. The report underscores the strong arguments for NATO to move to a safer, more secure, and more credible nuclear posture without forward-deployed U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe. The challenge is how to advance current thinking about the military and political dimensions of alternative nuclear postures |
| Notes |
"January 2018." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-58) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (NTI, viewed February 17, 2018) |
| Subject |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Military policy
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| SUBJECT |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. fast (OCoLC)fst00529467 |
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Nuclear weapons -- Security measures
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Deterrence (Strategy)
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Nuclear warfare -- Prevention
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Security, International.
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Arms control.
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Arms control.
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Deterrence (Strategy)
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Military policy.
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Nuclear warfare -- Prevention.
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Nuclear weapons -- Security measures.
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Security, International.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Isabelle, author
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Rose, Brian, author
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Kristensen, Hans M., author
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Lunn, Simon, author
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Moniz, Ernest J
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Nunn, Sam
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Nuclear Threat Initiative, publisher.
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