Unilateral reductions have been the only successful method for reducing nonstrategic nuclear weapons, Hans M. Kris-tensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, argues in this report. Kristensen provides an overview of what is publicly known about U.S. and Russian nonstrategic nuclear forces and their postures. He outlines NATO's new Strategic Concept, adopted at the Lisbon summit in November 2010, and highlights the relevant differences between that version and the one from 1999, including the addition of a statement committing the alliance "to the goal of creating the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons" and new linkage between U.S. and Russian nonstrategic nuclear weapons. Kristensen argues that
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