Email this article The Biden administration nuclear posture review: a new vision?
- Authors: Krivolapov O.O.1, Stepanova N.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 12 (2023)
- Pages: 99-109
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-6730/article/view/233822
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S268667302312009X
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/NHRBMH
- ID: 233822
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Abstract
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of US doctrinal documents - the Nuclear Posture Reviews of 2018 and 2022. The authors set themselves the objective of determining whether the nuclear threshold has decreased/increased during the Biden administration. Analysis of the corresponding sections of documents leads to the conclusion about continuity between the Reviews. This concerns issues of nuclear modernization, the “tailored deterrence” strategy, and regional aspects of the US nuclear deterrence. The section of the 2022 document devoted to arms control sounds relatively new, however, foreign policy landscape and virtual collapse of the modern arms control architecture do not allow the authors of the doctrine to be optimistic in this matter .
About the authors
Oleg O. Krivolapov
Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: o.krivolapov@iskran.ru
Москва, Российская Федерация
Nataliya V. Stepanova
Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: n.stepanova@iskran.ru
Москва, Российская Федерация
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