Nuclear Weapons in U.S. National Security Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects
CRS Report for Congress
By Amy F. Woolf
29 October 2007
The Bush Administration has outlined a strategy of “tailored deterrence” to define the role that nuclear weapons play in U.S. national security policy. There has been little discussion of this concept, either in Congress or in the public at large. This leaves unanswered questions about how this strategy differs from U.S. nuclear strategy during the Cold War and how it might advise decisions about the size and structure of the U.S. nuclear arsenal . . . View full article
Bombs Away, For Good
Wall Street Journal
By Linton Brooks
29 August 2007
Are the plans to upgrade our nuclear arsenal with a Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) consistent with America's interests in opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons? Some reasonable critics of the program have expressed doubts . . . View full article
Testimony:
House Armed Services Committee
Strategic Forces
Subcommittee
By William J. Perry
18 July 2007
The ending of the Cold War brought about enormous geopolitical changes, not all
of which, as it turned out, were good. But it did bring about one positive change of
enormous importance: it reduced to nearly zero the danger of a nuclear war resulting
from a miscalculation. There still exists, however, the danger of nuclear war occurring
by accident. Both American and Russian missiles remain in a launch-on-warning mode.
And the inherent danger of this status is aggravated by the fact that the Russian
warning system has deteriorated since the ending of the Cold War.
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