Issue Brief

Nuclear Posture Review (Excerpts), December 31, 2001.

Department of Defense, “Findings of the Nuclear Posture Review,” Set of Slides, January 9, 2002.

Department of Defense, “Special Briefing on the Nuclear Posture Review,” Press Briefing Transcript, January 9, 2002.

Department of Defense, Nuclear Posture Review Report, Executive Summary, January 2002.

Senate Armed Services Committee, Hearing on the Nuclear Posture Review, February 14, 2002:

• Statement of Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
• Statement of Admiral James Ellis, U.S. Navy, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Strategic Command; Basic Terminology of the Nuclear Posture Review.
• Statement of General John Gordon, National Nuclear Security Administration

Joint Working Group Study, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council (RANSAC), “Reshaping U.S.-Russian Threat Reduction: New Approaches for the Second Debate,” November 2002.

Philipp C. Bleek, “Report Says U.S. Studying New Nuclear Capabilities,”Arms Control Today, January/February 2002.

Philipp C. Bleek, “Energy Department to Study Modifying Nuclear Weapons,” Arms Control Today, April 2002.

Hans M. Kristensen, “Nuclear Futures: Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Nuclear Strategy,” British American Security Information Council, BASIC Research Report 98.2, March 1998.

Hans M. Kristensen, “The Matrix of Deterrence: U.S. Strategic Command Force Structure Studies,” The Nautilus Institute, May 2001; declassified documents from 1991 to 1996 that formed the basis of this report are available at the Nautilus Institute’s Nuclear Strategy Project.

Robert W. Nelson, “Low-Yield Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons,” FAS Public Interest Report, January/February 2001.

Keith B. Payne, Study director, “Rationale and Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Forces and Arms Control,” National Institute for Public Policy report, January 2001.

C. Paul Robinson, “A White Paper: Pursuing a New Nuclear Weapons Policy for the 21st Century,” Sandia National Laboratories, March 22, 2001.

Bruce Blair et al., “Toward True Security: A U.S. Nuclear Posture for the Next Decade,” Federation of American Scientists, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Natural Resources Defense Council report, June 2001.

Steven M. Younger, “Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century,” Los Alamos National Laboratory, LAUR-00-2850, June 27, 2000.

Department of Defense, “Report to Congress on the Defeat of Hardened and Deeply Buried Targets,” July 2001; submitted to Congress in October 2001 by the Secretary of Defense in Conjunction with the Secretary of Energy, in response to Section 1044 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, P.L. 106-398.

Anthony H. Cordesman, “The Impact of the US Nuclear Posture Review: Analytic Summary,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 10, 2002.

Paul Richter, “U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms,” The Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2002.

David E. Sanger, “Bush Finds that Ambiguity is Part of Nuclear Deterrence,” The New York Times, March 18, 2002.

“United States: What’s New?: The Nuclear Posture Review,” The Economist, March 16, 2002, p. 35.

Walter Pincus, “U.S. Nuclear Arms Stance Modified by Policy Study: Preemptive Strike Becomes and Option,” The Washington Post, March 23, 2002, p. A14.

Philipp C. Bleek, “New Details on Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review Emerge,” Arms Control Today, March 2002.

Arms Control Association Fact Sheet, “United States Nuclear Policy: ‘Negative Security Assurances’,” March 2002.

Arms Control Association Panel Discussion, “Parsing the Nuclear Posture Review,” March 2002.

Stephen Young and Lisbeth Gronlund, “A Review of the 2002 US Nuclear Posture Review,” Union of Concerned Scientists Working Paper, May 14, 2002.

William M. Arkin, “Secret Plan Outlines the Unthinkable,” The Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2002.

Michelle Ciarrocca, “The Nuclear Posture Review: Reading between the Lines,” Common Dreams News Center, January 17, 2002.

Alistair Millar, “Shifty Nuke Accounting: Bush Arsenal Cuts Reprise Cold War,” Defense News, January 28-February 3, 2002.

Editorial, “America as Nuclear Rogue,” The New York Times, March 12, 2002.

Robert S. McNamara and Thomas Graham, Jr., “A Pretty Poor Posture for a Superpower,” The Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2002.

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., “The Bush Nuclear Posture Review: Adults at Work on Restoring the Credibility of America’s Deterrent,” FrontPageMagazine.com, March 13, 2002.

Rose Gottemoeller, “On Nukes, We Need to Talk,” The Washington Post, April 2, 2002.

Jim Hoagland, “Nuclear Preemption,” The Washington Post, March 17, 2002.

Henry C. Kelly and Michael A. Levi, “Nix the Mini-Nukes,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 28, 2002.

Mary McGrory, “Nuts about Nukes,” The Washington Post, March 14, 2002.

James S. Robbins, “Why the Leak?: More Nuclear Posturing,” National Review Online, March 15, 2002.

Richard D. Sokolsky and Eugene B. Rumer, “Nuclear Alarmists,” The Washington Post, March 15, 2002, p. A23.

Council for a Livable World, “3 Nobel Laureates Criticize Bush Nuclear Posture Review,” March 18, 2002.

J. Peter Scoblic, “Think Anew About US Nukes,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 2002.

Stephen I. Schwartz, “Nukes You Can Use,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2002.

Jane Wales, “U.S. Nuclear Plan Signals a Policy Revolution,” San Jose Mercury News, March 17, 2002.

Harold A. Feiveson, ed., The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999).

Janne E. Nolan, Guardians of the Arsenal: The Politics of Nuclear Strategy (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989).

Janne E. Nolan, An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security after the Cold War (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999).

Keith B. Payne, The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction (Lexington, Kentucky: The University of Kentucky Press, 2001).

James M. Smith, ed., Nuclear Deterrence and Defense: Strategic Considerations (Colorado: U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies Book Series, February 2001).

Evan S. Medeiros and Jing-dong Yuan, “The U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and China’s Responses,” Research Story of the Week, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, April 1, 2002.

Charles D. Ferguson, “Mini-Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Posture Review,” Research Story of the Week, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, April 8, 2002.