![]() Putin didn’t use the word nuclear in his Feb. Hours later, the Japanese foreign minister came calling to make sure it wasn’t so. should adopt a “no-first-use” nuclear policy, a Pentagon official leaked it to the media. When President Barack Obama led a National Security Council meeting to discuss whether the U.S. When Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev almost agreed to dismantle all of their nuclear weapons at the Reykjavik summit in 1986, the most alarmed parties were America’s NATO allies, who feared that Reagan was folding up the umbrella. ![]() would never be the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict (even though several have privately believed we wouldn’t do so), in part because allies view the “nuclear umbrella”-the promise that we will, if necessary, use our nukes to protect them from attacks by common enemies-as part of America’s security guarantee. No American president has officially declared that the U.S. This isn’t discussed much in public, but it has been an aspect of nuclear war plans-East and West-since the dawn of the Atomic Age. ![]() Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.
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