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Dirk Roland Haupt

Doctoral student

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Idén om en ”det enda syftets” kärnvapendoktrin : Konsekvenser för USA:s allierade, för Nato och den nukleära delaktigheten

The Concept of a "Sole Purpose" Nuclear Doctrine : Implications for U.S. Allies, NATO and Nuclear Sharing

Author

  • Dirk Roland Haupt

Summary, in English

U.S. President Joseph R. Biden is considering changing the United States’ policy on nuclear deterrence. Since the beginning of the nuclear age, Washington has always declared that it could respond with nuclear retaliation not only to attacks with nuclear weapons, but also to non-nuclear aggression. That declaratory policy may soon be tightened: Biden would like to reduce the role of nuclear weapons, through a ”sole purpose (SP)” declaration. Under such policy, the sole purpose of U.S. nuclear arsenal should be deterring and, if necessary, retaliating against nuclear attacks. Against conventional aggression, the U.S. would never use nuclear weapons. Contrary to expectations, however, this would hardly reduce the nuclear risks the U.S. faces today. Moreover, the United States’ allies in Europe and Asia already fear that SP would compromise their security. In Europe, for France and the United Kingdom as nuclear-weapon States as well as for NATO’s nuclear-sharing Nations Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and – to a lesser degree – Turkey, the question arises as to the political and military consequences of a ”sole purpose policy.”

Department/s

  • Department of Law

Publishing year

2022-08-17

Language

Swedish

Pages

149-166

Publication/Series

Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademins Handlingar och Tidskrift

Volume

226 (2022)

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • Kärnvapendoktrin
  • Nukleär avskräckning
  • Nukleär delaktighet
  • Icke-spridningsavtalet
  • Negativa säkerhetsgarantier
  • Internationell säkerhetslagstiftning
  • Folkrätt
  • Nuclear doctrine
  • Nuclear deterrence
  • Nuclear sharing
  • Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons
  • Negative security assurances
  • International security law
  • Public international law

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0023-5369