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NATO Op-Eds and Analyses

This page provides links to Op-Eds and analyses relating to NATO's nuclear policy and the debate about a no-first-use policy. The entries are listed in reverse chronological order beginning with the most recent. Either scroll down or use the search engine to locate items of interest.

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Entries From 1999

• William Arkin, A Draft in America's Future?, washingtonpost.com, (Nov 12, 1999) [text-only version]. Also see the full New World Coming report.
  
• William Arkin, The Story Behind the Chinese Embassy Bombing, washingtonpost.com, (Nov 8, 1999) [text-only version].
  
• Stansfield Turner, A Way Out Of Nuclear Stalemate, Washington Post, (Nov 1, 1999) [text-only version].
  
• Paul Nitze, A Threat Mostly to Ourselves, New York Times, (Oct 28, 1999) [text-only version.
  
• Lawrence Eagleburger, Don't kill the nuclear test ban treaty, Washington Times, (Oct 11, 1999).
  
• Ray Kidder, Lynn Sykes and Frank von Hippel, False Fears About A Test Ban, Washington Post, (Oct 10, 1999). [text-only version.]
  
• Stansfield Turner, Ratify The Test Ban Treaty, New York Times, (Oct 9, 1999).
  
• Jon Kyl, Nuclear Treaty Fallout, Washington Post, (Oct 9, 1999). [text-only version.]
  
• Jacques Chirac, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schroder, A Treaty We All Need, New York Times, (Oct 8, 1999).
  
• Henry Kissinger, Storm Clouds Gathering: The Unnecessary Rush Toward Confrontation Must Be Reversed By Both China And The United States, Washington Post, (Sep 7, 1999). [text-only version].
  
• Hans M. Kristensen and Wade L. Huntley, NATO Nuclear Policy: Back To The Future, The Monitor, page 8, (Sep 1999) [text-only version].
  
• Zhang Qingmin writes:U.S. Technological Transfer to China and Sino-U.S. Relations, Ta Kung Pao (Hong Kong), (Sep 1, 1999).
  
• Samuel Berger Outlines U.S. Nonproliferation Policy, Security Issues Digest No. 169, (Sep 1, 1999). [text-only version].
  
• Peter R. Lavoy, Director of Counterproliferation Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, writes about The Cost of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia, (Sep 1999). [text-only version].
  
• Robin Collins reviews Scientific American article on "Virtual" nuclear testing, (Aug 30, 1999).
  
• Article in the September issue of Scientific American by Christopher Paine:A Case against Virtual Nuclear Testing, (Sep 1999). Only summary available.
  
• Article Examines India's Nuclear Doctrine, Deccan Herald (Bangalore), (Aug 28, 1999).
  
• J. E. Dolan, False Alarm (Cont'd), Washington Post, (Aug 21, 1999) [text-only version].
  
• David Siegrist, Not So False Alarm, Washington Post, (Aug 28, 1999) [text-only version].
  
• Otfried Nassauer writes: Tactical Nuclear Weapons Part Of START-III Negotiations, (Aug 19, 1999).
  
• Kissinger on Endorsement of Test Ban Treaties, Washington Post, (Aug 4, 1999). [text-only version].
  
• Russian Writers Analyze Nuclear, Non-Nuclear Deterrence, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye (Moscow), (Aug 23, 1999).
  
• Russian Debate On Naval Doctrine Continues, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye (Moscow), (Jul 1999).
  
• Defense Secretary William Cohen, Preparing For a Grave New World, Washington Post, (Jul 26, 1999) [text-only version].
  
• Article Questions Value of Nuclear Weapons; Did Safety of Palaces Matter More?, Amn (Pakistan), (Jul 15, 1999).
  
• Bill Robinson writes:Nuclear Policy Statement Released, (Jul 8, 1999).
  
• Primakov Writes in Dutch Paper: Kosovo May Mark New World Order, Algemeen Dagblad, (Jun 30, 1999).
  
• "This Treaty Must Be Ratified", writes Paul Nitze and Sidney Drell, (Jun 21, 1999). Also available as text-only version.
  
• Chinese President Jiang Zemin writes: "The Way To Get On With Nuclear Disarmament", (Jun 16, 1999).
  
• Winkler: Chinese Nuclear Theft In Perspective, Cincinnati Post, (Jun 3, 1999). A text-only version is available here.
  
• Mc Neill: Spilling Our Nuclear Secrets, New York Times, (Jun 3, 1999). For a text-only version, go here.
  
• William C. Potter and Jonathan B. Tucker: Weapons Spreading, Washington Post, (May 28, 1999). Also available in a text-only format.
  
• Jimmy Carter: Have We Forgotten the Path to Peace?, The New York Times, (May 27, 1999).
  
• Abdul Sattar, Pakistani Ex-Foreign Minister Blasts No-First-Use, The News (Islamabad), (May 5, 1999).
  
• Martin Butcher, NATO Summit Set to Ignore 1995 NPT Decisions, (Apr 6, 1999).
  
• Akhtar Ali, NATO First-Use Policy Becomes Argument in Pakistani Debate Karachi Dawn (Internet Version), (Mar 16, 1999).
  
• Javier Solana, NATO Secretary General and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council, The Washington Summit: NATO steps boldly into the 21st century, NATO Review (web-edition), Spring 1999.
  For a text-only version, go here.
  
• Dan Plesch and Otfried Nassauer, Preparing for Future Nuclear Disarmament:The Summit and the Steps Ahead, unpublished, (Mar 1999).
• Otfried Nassauer, Germany calls for no first use (Topic IV), PENN Newsletter No.7, (Feb 1999).
  
• William V. Roth Jr., Not Your Father’s NATO, Washington Times, (Feb 2, 1999).
  
• Geneva Overholser, Rhetoric Aside, U.S. is Hooked on Nukes, Sacramento Bee (Jan 18, 1999).
  
• Stansfield Turner, Post-Cold War World Demands New Ways to Deal with Warheads, Los Angeles Times (Jan 12, 1999).

• Alice Slater, US Allies Break Ranks On Nuclear Policy, Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), (Dec 22, 1998).
  
• Gordon Smith, Canada Should Lead A Drive For Transparency In Nuclear Policy, Vancouver Sun (Dec 19, 1998).
  
• George F. Kennan, Back To The Nuclear Question, Washington Post (Dec 15, 1998).
  
• George Perkovich, First Use for What? A Failed Policy, Los Angeles Times (Dec 1998).
  
• Maria Magrowska, New Concept, Old Principle, Warsaw Rzeczpospolita (Dec 9, 1998).
  
• Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, NATO Ready for the 21st Century, Security Issues Digest No. 234, (Dec 8, 1998).
  
• Jorgen Dragsdahl, Nuclear Priesthood Challenged, Weekendavisen (Nov 27, 1998).
  
• Ashok K. Mehta, Make the Nuclear Philosophy Complete, The Indian Express, (Sep 8, 1998). For a text-only format, go here.
  
• Thomas Graham, Jr, Nuclear Targeting and the Role of Nuclear Weapons, as submitted to Defense News Inside View (Feb. 23 - Mar 1, 1998).
  
• Stephen I. Schwartz, Miscalculated Ambiguity: U.S. Policy on the Use and Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament Diplomacy (Feb 1998).

• Ambassador Thomas Graham, Japan has Chance to Scale Back Nuclear-Weapons Threat, The Nikkei Weekly (Japan),(Sep 8, 1997).
  
• Nicola Butler and Dan Plesch, Nuclear Policy Under Review in Blair's Britain, Policy Brief Vol. 1, No. 11, The Committee on Nuclear Policy, The Stimson Center, (Sep 5, 1997).

• William C. Potter and David Fischer, Nuclear Free: Better Than NATO, (Los Angeles Times, Sep 30, 1996).
  

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