Nuclear Posture Review: Trump and Three Previous Administrations

• Autores: Mitsuru Kurosawa
• Localización: Osaka University law review, ISSN 0472-1381, Nº. 66, 2019, págs. 33-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In February 2018, the Secretary of Defense of the Trump Administration submitted the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)1) to Congress. The report specifies the U.S. nuclear policy for several years and influences the progress of the issues surrounding nuclear weapons in international diplomacy decisively. This is the fourth report following those produced under President Bill Clinton in 1994, President George W. Bush in 2002, and President Barack Obama in 2010.

    This study mainly examines the Trump NPR, and compares it with other three NPRs from the previous administrations. First, it surveys the perception of the international security environment and threat, which constitute the basis of the NPR. Second, it studies what specific roles are entrusted to nuclear weapons under the security policy. Third, it examines how the U.S. nuclear forces and capabilities will be constructed. Fourth, it investigates what postures this new NPR takes towards the issues of nuclear disarmament. Finally, it evaluates the NPR as a whole, compared with the other three previous NPRs.