NATO Reassurance and Nuclear Reductions: Creating the Conditions

Authors

Hans Binnendijk
Catherine McArdle Kelleher

Files

Description

The first point in the preface of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Strategic Concept reconfirms the bonds between NATO nations to defend one another under Article 5. This was a response to the requirement by some Central and Eastern European (CEE) states that reassurance of Article 5 remains fully operative. The fourth point in the preface commits NATO to the goal of creating the conditions for a world free of nuclear weapons.1 This includes further reductions of U.S. nonstrategic nuclear weapons (NSNW) deployed in Europe. It also implies mutual reductions and closer cooperative relations with Russia

Document Type

Policy Brief

Topic(s)

Transatlantic Security, National Security, Defense Policy

Publication Date

1-2012

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Keywords

NATO reassurance, nuclear reductions, Alliance Article 5, NATO Strategic Concept, Euro-Atlantic security, U.S.-European defense cooperation, nonstrategic nuclear weapons, Russia-NATO relations, collective defense conditions

Recommended Citation

Binnendijk, Hans and Kelleher, Catherine McArdle, "NATO Reassurance and Nuclear Reductions: Creating the Conditions" (2012). Transatlantic Currents. 6.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/transatlantic-currents/6