United States

The US military budget is greater than the next 15 largest military budgets combined. As clear from Bush administration statements, the 2002 Nuclear Posture Review and National Security Strategy, US approaches to security policy, nuclear weapons, counterproliferation, missile defence and terrorism are no longer tied to its bilateral relations with Russia or traditional transatlantic alliances, including NATO. With a more European perspective than US-based organisations, we provide news, analyses and documentation on US defence and policy developments and their implications for multilateralism and international security.

New US President

Barack Obama and Joe Biden on US Defense Issues, October 2008
Barack Obama and Joe Biden on US Foreign Policy Issues, October 2008
US Defense Secretary Gates on Nuclear Deterrence, 28 October 2008
Barack Obama speech on Nuclear Weapons and Diplomacy, 2 October 2008

Documents and Reports

'Reinvigorating the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise', US Air Force Report, 24 October 2008
Concerns as US-India Nuclear Deal Goes Through, including Statement by US President George W. Bush on the Occasion of Signing H.R. 7081, In the News, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No. 88, Summer 2008
US and Russian Public Opinion on Arms Control and Space Security, Nancy Gallagher, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No.87, Spring 2008
Federation of American Scientists reports removal of US nuclear weapons from the UK, 26 June 2008
Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain on Nuclear Security, 27 May 2008
Democrat Presidential Candidate Barack Obama on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 26 May 2008
Toward a Nuclear-Free World, by George P Shultz, William J Perry, Henry A Kissinger and Sam Nunn, 15 January 2008
Two Treaties to Contain Missile Proliferation, by Thomas Graham and Dinshaw Mistry, Proposes two multilateral approaches to curbing missile proliferation, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No.82, Spring 2006.
The misbegotten US-India nuclear deal, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No.82, Spring 2006.
National Security and Neo-Arms Control in the Bush Administration, by Jeffrey A. Larsen, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No.80, Autumn 2005
Renewal of US-UK Nuclear Cooperation 'in Breach of NPT' say Eminent Lawyers, including:
- Mutual Defence Agreement and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Joint Advice from Rabinder Singh QC and Professor Christine Chinkin, Matrix Chambers
US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement, Disarmament Diplomacy, No.77, May/June 2004
US-UK Nuclear Weapons Cooperation Up for Renewal, Disarmament Diplomacy, No.76, March/April 2004
From Arms Control to Cooperative Threat Reduction
by Michael Krepon, Disarmament Diplomacy No.75, January/February 2004
WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications
by Alexis Orton and Joseph Cirincione, Disarmament Diplomacy No.75, January/February 2004
President Bush's War on Terror
by Paul Rogers, Disarmament Diplomacy No.74, December 2003

Selected US Policy Statements

US Nuclear Weapons and Doctrine

National Security and Nuclear Weapons: Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, Statement by the US Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State, July 20, 2007
US sets out plans for a responsive nuclear weapons infrastructure, Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs National Nuclear Security Administration Thomas P. D’Agostino, April 5, 2006
US nuclear doctrine is set out in Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, Joint Publication 3-12, Final Coordination (2), March 15, 2005

Foreign Policy

President Bush State of the Union Address, January 28, 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Speech to the World Economic Forum, Davos, January 7, 2008
President Bush State of the Union address, January 23, 2007
'[W]e seek the end of tyranny in our world', President Bush, State of the Union Address, January 31, 2006
'Global Intelligence Challenges 2005', Director of Central Intelligence Porter J. Goss March 2 on Terrorism and Proliferation, February 16, 2005
President Bush, State of the Union address, February 2, 2005
'Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it', President Bush inauguration speech, January 20, 2005
'We must use American diplomacy to help create a balance of power in the world that favors freedom', Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Prepared Statement at Confirmation Hearing Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 18, 2005

For an archive of material on US and Russian policy on WMD, nuclear weapons and missile defence, see: http://www.acronym.org.uk/start.

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