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Rethinking NATO's strategic concept: building on the emerging nuclear abolition imperative.
While Afghanistan will certainly dominate the talk at the 60th-anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1) (NATO or the Alliance) in April, leaders are also scheduled to launch a process to review the Alliance's Strategic Concept, a key element of which is a controversial and outdated nuclear doctrine.
The Strategic Concept--the current version of which was adopted in 1999--is NATO's official statement of purpose and outlines its force posture and approach to collective security (NATO 1999). Nine of its 65 paragraphs refer to nuclear weapons, the central claim being that the nuclear arsenals of the United States in particular, but also of the ...
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- Newspaper article from: New Zealand International Review Smith, Ron January 1, 1997 700+ words
...wide clamour for the abolition of nuclear weapons, both of which are more complex than...interpretation of the call for the abolition of nuclear weapons is that it would entail a state of...would be affected by this? Present nuclear-weapons states include: the United States...
Source: HighBeam Research, Rethinking NATO's strategic concept: building on the emerging nuclear...