Closing the nuclear umbrella

Journal Article · · Foreign Affairs; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/20045914· OSTI ID:7020528

Carpenter, T G ^[1]

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1. Cato Institute, Washington, DC (United States)

It is time for US leaders to reassess Cold War policies on nonproliferation, security commitments and extended deterrence and to adapt them to changed international circumstances. These commitments may once have made sense, given the need to thwart the Soviet Union's expansionist agenda. But they are highly dubious in the absence of the superpower rivalry. They now threaten to embroil the United States in regional conflicts where nuclear weapons have already proliferated or will inevitably proliferate soon. Washington should give up its fruitless obsession with preserving the NPT and the unraveling nonproliferation system that it represents.

• OSTI ID: 7020528
• Journal Information: Foreign Affairs; (United States), Journal Name: Foreign Affairs; (United States) Vol. 73:2; ISSN 0015-7120; ISSN FRNAA3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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