Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review seeks flexibility to allow for an uncertain future

摘要

The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is seeking to provide US nuclear deterrent programmes and policies that are flexible enough to account for substantial uncertainty about the future. "We're at an extraordinary point right now in the Nuclear Posture Review context, in so far as we have an NPR that is occurring at the beginning of very long and very expensive programmes of record to modernise all three legs of our triad," said Dr Chris Ford, the National Security Council's senior director for weapons of mass destruction and counter-proliferation.