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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Prepared to provide the Russian Government with written political guarantees regarding the U.S. and NATO Missile Defense Systems in Europe.
The phased adaptive approach is neither targeted toward the Russian Federation nor, frankly, capable to deter its many, many offensive weapons.
We have to absolutely, unambiguously protect the things that we must protect.
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