What Happened to US “Global Zero” Nuclear Disarmament
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The following piece, written by Peter Huessy, first appeared on Warrior Maven, a Military Content Group member website.
Nuclear Modernization, The Global Disarmament Racket, and America’s Security
A History Introduction: Arms Control & Disarmament
A push in 2007 from the “Four Horsemen”—former Senator Sam Nunn, former Secretaries of State George Schultz and Henry Kissinger, and former Secretary of Defense William Perry—to set a goal of zero nuclear weapons galvanized the disarmament community to seek the abolition of nuclear forces. Although, by their own admission, they had no idea how disarmament could be accomplished.
At the time, American strategic nuclear forces under START I (1991) and the Moscow Treaty (2002) had been reduced by nearly ninety percent. On the other hand, while Russia agreed to both treaties, its strategic nuclear forces probably, while significantly reduced, remained somewhere around 2500-3000, with the ability to grow significantly.
Disarmament advocates assumed US and Russian nuclear forces would continue to reduce. Once New START was ratified in 2010, US strategic nuclear forces would continue their descent to an official 1550 warheads. In the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) of the time, it was widely predicted that further START-type arms agreements would be on the horizon, lowering US nuclear forces toward worldwide nuclear disarmament, joined by a reformed or reset Russia, and move all in due course to what has become known as “Global Zero.”
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