A Credible Grand Strategy: The Urgent Need to Set Priorities • Stimson Center
This paper documents why U.S. foreign policy should change, and then maps out how it can be done.
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This paper documents why U.S. foreign policy should change, and then maps out how it can be done.
Abstract: The Obama Administration is already preparing for negotiations with Russia on an arms control treaty that goes beyond New START, which just entered into force in February. The Administration may see this next treaty as the means for establishing a “minimal deterrence” posture for the U.S. as a way station between today’s posture and its ultimate goal of nuclear disarmament. It is never too early in the arms control treaty process for Senators to exercise their power to advise the President and his Administration. Given U.S.
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The U.S. and Chinese governments, for the foreseeable future, will have the resources to keep each other’s society vulnerable to nuclear mass destruction.
“The consequences of even a so-called ‘limited nuclear war’ would be absolutely catastrophic,” said the director of the Arms Control Association.