“A legally-binding no-first-use commitment—through congressional legislation or a multilateral treaty—would make a nuclear first-strike order illegal, drawing a clear line for US military officers.” @jmsleight in @BulletinAtomic https://t.co/8FweByyONe
— Global Zero (@globalzero) October 6, 2021
Defense News: Debate on ‘no first use’ of nukes mushrooms in Washington
WASHINGTON ― Five years after President Barack Obama turned back from declaring a “no first use” as U.S. policy for nuclear weapons, opponents say the Biden administration is considering it too, and warn that it risks alienating allies.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s ranking member, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said that he believes America’s allies are “very, very upset” with the idea President Joe Biden might reverse decades of U.S. nuclear policy as part of his administration’s sweeping Nuclear Posture Review, expected in 2022.
The U.S. has historically maintained ambiguity about whether it would carry out a first strike with a nuclear weapon, but the policy would expressly rule it out.
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Update: US Debates Promising No First Use of Nukes (Antiwar.com)
WNU Editor: This is not the first time the US is debating a "no first use".
My prediction.
This change in US nuclear policy is not going to happen.
2 comments:
I hope you're right WNU. This seems like a terrible idea to me. I could be wrong of course but considering the dangerous world we live in and the rise of nations likes china, I think this seems foolisb. It also seems very much like something the modern day democrats would be behind. President Obama, to his credit, had the right idea on this issue I think.
In strategy you never have to say what you will do and what you will not to do.
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