Monroe is former director of the Defense Nuclear Agency, and a member of the Nuclear Strategy Forum.
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To understand why, you need to understand three things about U.S. nuclear strategy.
It was the enduring need for deterrence that forced the Obama Administration to confront a paradox of nuclear strategy.
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His new nuclear strategy also says we won't produce any new nuclear weapons.
The nuclear strategy will not take U.S. nuclear weapons off submarines, bombers and missiles that could fire them at a moment's notice.
Today's nuclear strategy is one of several sector strategies we will be developing between now and the summer in partnership with industry.
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Much of India's nuclear strategy focuses on improving delivery vehicles.
As notable is the assent of retired Air Force General Lee Butler, former head of the Strategic Air Command, who underwent a very public post-service revulsion against America's nuclear strategy.
But even that franchise had slowly waned as the superior flexibility and survivability of Navy ballistic missile subs called into question the future of land-based bombers and missiles in nuclear strategy.
Some supporters of nuclear disarmament describe our current approach to nuclear strategy as a failure of imagination that one day could lead to unprecedented catastrophe (proponents of missile defense often say the same thing).
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is President of EMPact America, Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, and served on the staffs of the EMP Commission, the Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee and the Central Intelligence Agency.
This is the direct and predictable result of the practice of essentially "freezing" our nuclear weapons strategy and stockpile over the past seventeen years since the end of the Cold War.
In the early 1960s, U.S. nuclear strategists realized that a national strategy entirely reliant upon the threat of massive nuclear retaliation was not credible, that most challenges would not rise to the level of justifying nuclear response and that the Soviets would seek to take advantage of that fact.
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Funding for the program will be scaled back while the administration works on a new strategy for nuclear waste disposal, the document says.
He directed a Nuclear Policy Review that committed the government to reducing the role of nuclear weapons in national strategy, scaling back the size of the strategic arsenal, and continuing a 20-year moratorium on production of new nuclear warheads.
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R. man named Robert Humphreys, instinctively grasped that television was about to alter politics as thoroughly as the nuclear option had recently changed military strategy.
One such challenge was whether the United States, with a military strategy based on credible nuclear deterrence, could maintain a highly reliable stockpile of nuclear weapons indefinitely without testing.
To move beyond outdated Cold War thinking and to focus on the nuclear dangers of the 21st century, our new Nuclear Posture Review reduces the role and number of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy.
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The strategy will be overseen by a Nuclear Industry Council, co-chaired by ministers and industry.
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The existing traditional network will also need to be upgraded to accommodate electricity from new power stations, including nuclear, the report by the Electricity Networks Strategy Group for the government said.
The Obama administration has said it wants to speed construction of nuclear-power facilities as part of a strategy to support sources of energy that emit little or no carbon dioxide or other gases linked to climate change.
The Bush administration published a new strategy document hinting that it might use nuclear weapons if its troops or allies were attacked by non-conventional weapons.
Since India and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons, this may be the highest-risk strategy of all.
The energy secretary told MPs nuclear power was a "key part" of government's strategy towards a low-carbon future, but stressed it was only "part of the answer".
President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative is an example of a global strategy for dealing with the spread of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and missile-related materiel and technology.
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Second, as an alternative to defenses, national leaders adopted a strategy of deterrence, meaning any enemy foolish enough to launch a nuclear attack would suffer devastating retaliation-in-kind.
"A real exit strategy has to start with an inspection by the world's top experts on nuclear accidents, " Iida told reporters at Japan's national press club last week.
As the Obama administration establishes its foreign policy, it must grapple with a strategy for U.S. relations with Iran, which has continued a controversial nuclear program and launched a satellite into orbit this week.
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