Family Security Matters » Publications » ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons’: Prologue for a Mistaken Strategic Nuclear Policy

Family Security Matters » Publications » ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons’: Prologue for a Mistaken Strategic Nuclear Policy: "What sort of national security policy can we expect from a president who seeks a “world free of nuclear weapons?” In principle, of course, this is a reasonable and desirable objective. In reality, however, especially considering actual and probable nuclear proliferation by North Korea, Iran and possibly their respective proxies, it is preposterous. For the United States, any policy based on such an unrealizable objective is very dangerous.

In matters of national security policy, every intellectual failure may be dense with implication. By failing to identify serious strategic threats and objectives, the current administration has ignored the core expectations of national survival logic in an anarchic world. Before a safer America could ever be born from a policy of worldwide nuclear disarmament, a gravedigger would have to wield the forceps.

Any further nuclear proliferation should be curtailed, but, ironically, this goal would actually be degraded by the administration’s current proposals. By themselves, nuclear weapons are neither good nor evil. In certain circumstances, these weapons may even be indispensable to national security and deterrence. For example, the nuclear stalemate between this country and the former Soviet Union surely played a critical role in preventing World War III. And however “ambiguous,” Israel’s implicit nuclear deterrent is required for that tiny country’s capacity to simply endure."