NATO Document Advocates Nuclear Disarmament For The Organization

NATO Headquarters in Brusse, Belgia (Image:NATO)

NATO Document Addresses Nuclear Disarmament -- New York Times

BERLIN — Two months before what could be the most important NATO summit meeting in more than a decade, the 28 member states of the alliance have received a draft of its new strategic concept, which for the first time, at the insistence of Germany and other countries, includes calls for nuclear disarmament.

At the same time, according to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s secretary general, has completed another highly classified document, numbering several hundred pages, that will be attached to the final strategic concept. Mr. Rasmussen’s document sets out in detail how NATO would react and assign units and forces to respond to a range of attacks — terrorist, cyber, conventional, nuclear or other — several diplomats said Thursday.

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Update: Draft NATO Strategy Calls for Nuclear Disarmament -- Global Security Newswire

My Comment: With any other US President, such a document would be dead on arrival. But with President Obama in the White House and Secretary of State Clinton running foreign policy .... anything is now possible.