New Pentagon Strategy Will Not Rule Out Using Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Threats

Bloomberg: Pentagon’s Strategy Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Use Against Non-Nuclear Threats 

(Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejected limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates and in the past by President Joe Biden. 

Citing burgeoning threats from China and Russia, the Defense Department said in the document released Thursday that “by the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries.” 

In response, the US will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.  

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Update: Pentagon Reverses Strategy, No Longer Rules Out Use Of Nukes Against Non-Nuclear Threat While Putin Declares ‘No Reason’ For Russia To Use Nukes (New Wars)  

WNU Editor: This is a major policy change, and one that President Biden hmself promised not to change during the 2020 Presidential campaign. 

The Defense Department’s 2022 National Defense Strategy is here .... 2022 National Defense Strategy of the United States.  

Update #2: Going through the 2022 National Strategy document right now. From what I have read so far, it is a document that reflects how tense and dangerous the world is becoming. In the meantime the critics are appalled by what they are reading .... 'A Terrifying Document': Critics Say Biden Nuclear Policy Makes the World More Dangerous (Common Dreams).  

Update #3: Putin is always reminding people of this (see below):

Putin: The only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state is the United States of America

— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) October 27, 2022

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