The United States strengthened its longstanding Negative Security Assurance by declaring that the United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and in compliance with their nuclear nonproliferation obligations.
Secretary Tauscher explains the U.S. policy on nuclear weapons use against compliant non-nuclear states.
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The New START treaty is a bilateral agreement designed to stabilize the strategic balance between the United States and the Russian Federation at lower levels of nuclear forces.
Thank you for all of your work to keep arms control and nuclear nonproliferation at the forefront of our foreign policy.
While the United States and Russia frequently discuss the problems of Iran and North Korea pursuing development of nuclear weapons, this was not a topic of discussion in the negotiation of the bilateral New START treaty.
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