The Natural Resources Defense Council [2]and the Federation of American Scientists [3], Ploughshares-funded organizations, released a report calling for fundamental changes to U.S. nuclear war planning. The new joint report, From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence: A New Nuclear Policy on the Path toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons [4], argues for abandoning the almost five-decade-long central mission for U.S. nuclear forces. "President Obama has already taken the first step by stating America's commitment to a world without nuclear weapons," said Robert Norris [5]of the NRDC. Hans Kristensen [6]of FAS added, "Under minimal deterrence, all requirements for war planners to achieve an advantage in a nuclear exchange or limit damage to ourselves will disappear, leaving only in place the most basic mission of a sure retaliatory response.”
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/548
[2] http://www.nrdc.org/
[3] http://www.fas.org/
[4] http://www.fas.org/pubs/_docs/OccasionalPaper7.pdf
[5] http://ploughshares.org/expert/62
[6] http://ploughshares.org/expert/136
[7] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/13/AR2009041302566.html