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.

Documents and Reports

• 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

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