Josh Rogin reports: President Obama’s last-minute drive for a foreign-policy legacy is making U.S. allies nervous about their own security. Several allied governments have lobbied the administration not to change U.S. nuclear-weapons policy by promising never to be the first to use them in a conflict. – Washington Post
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As the clock ticks down on the final term of US President Barack Obama, who is believed to be reviewing a potential disarmament agenda for his last months in office, there has been a flurry of activity on Capitol Hill to try to influence the internal debate. – Defense News
FPI Policy Director David Adesnik writes: [E]ach and every one of the initiatives under consideration by the White House primarily constrains the United States and lessens the credibility of its nuclear deterrent while failing to rein in the provocations of hostile nuclear weapon states. Seven years after President Obama unveiled his Prague agenda, it remains unclear whether he has learned that American concessions cannot reduce the threat of nuclear war if Russia, China, North Korea and others remain firmly committed to growing and modernizing their arsenals. – Foreign Policy Initiative
FPI Policy Director David Adesnik writes: [E]ach and every one of the initiatives under consideration by the White House primarily constrains the United States and lessens the credibility of its nuclear deterrent while failing to rein in the provocations of hostile nuclear weapon states. Seven years after President Obama unveiled his Prague agenda, it remains unclear whether he has learned that American concessions cannot reduce the threat of nuclear war if Russia, China, North Korea and others remain firmly committed to growing and modernizing their arsenals. – Foreign Policy Initiative
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