Anonymous ID: b5b10f Sept. 3, 2018, 7:34 a.m. No.2858044   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8072 >>8081

The document will more clearly say the U.S. will not attack non-nuclear nations that have signed and are complying with the U.N. nonproliferation treaty, according to officials familiar with it. That effectively narrows the potential U.S. nuclear targets to the eight declared nuclear powers, as well as Iran and possibly Syria, said

 

Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund,

 

an arms-control group. U.S. officials consider those two nations to be not fully compliant with the nonproliferation treaty. The nuclear strategy will not take U.S. nuclear weapons off submarines, bombers and missiles that could fire them at a moment's notice. But the administration will recommend changes to the nuclear command structure that would make accidental launches more unlikely, officials said. They will also call for fortifying U.S. nuclear launch systems, so military officials would not believe they have to launch a nuclear strike out of fear that an incoming attack would destroy the U.S. response capacity. For the first time, the strategy makes counter-proliferation the highest priority of nuclear policy makers. The new strategy will emphasize reducing reliance on the role of nuclear weapons in deterrence, and will commit to accelerating the deployment of non-nuclear deterrent capabilities, such as missile defenses and the forward deployment of U.S. forces to trouble spots.

 

 

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