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| NUCLEAR POWER AND THE AMERICAN STRATEGY 07/04/2010 |
| (2010-04-07) |
| Last updated: 2010-04-08 13:47 EET |
On Tuesday American President Barack Obama spoke about a new military doctrine according to which the US would only resort to nuclear weaponsin “extreme situations” to defend its vital interests and those of its allies. According to the new doctrine, it is nuclear terrorism and not the states that have developed nuclear weapons that poses the biggest threat. This re-orientation of the American nuclear security policy, insistently called for by the US Congress, had been expected for some time given that President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize as a reward for his projects on nuclear non-proliferation.
Through its new doctrine, the US pledges not to use nuclear weapons against those states which do not own that technology as long as they observe the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran and North Korea are the two exceptions. The Islamic republic says it respects the Treaty which it ratified, but the UN Security Council does not share that opinion. As regards North Korea, it withdrew from the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003. Also the US wants to give up developing new atomic weapons. Barack Obama believes that his new military doctrine is an important step forward. He has intimated that conventional weapons are an efficiently enough means to deter nuclear attacks in all circumstances except for “extreme” cases.
The New York Times writes that this new doctrine on nuclear weapons put forth by the American President is a rather abrupt change in comparison with the doctrine of his predecessors. The doctrine announced in 2001 by President Bush, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, referred to the use of nuclear weapons to prevent ‘a large number of threats’ including chemical, biological or large scale conventional attacks.
The presentation of the new American military strategy announces a week that will be dominated by the nuclear issue. On Thursday Obama will sign the new Russian-American START treaty for strategic arms reduction and on April 12th and 13th, in Washington, will preside over the summit on nuclear security. As part of the signing ceremony of the START treaty, the US officials might make a statement on the US defence plans against strategic missiles. We recall that Romania and Bulgaria are holding negotiations with the Obama administration for the deployment of elements of the new American anti-missile defence shield in Europe, on their territories until 2015.
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