From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence: A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

Publication Type:

Report

Source:

Federation of American Scientists, Washington, D.C., p.64 (2009)

URL:

http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/doctrine/targeting.pdf

Abstract:

The study From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence: A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons recommends abandoning the decades-old “counterforce” doctrine and replacing it with a new and much less ambitious targeting policy the authors call Minimal Deterrence.


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