NATO’s Nuclear Posture Publications:
- Modernizing NATO’s Nuclear Forces: Implications for the Alliance’s defense posture and arms control, Hans M. Kristensen, November 2012, ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper No. 11.
- Dissecting the DDPR, Ted Seay, July 4, 2012, ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper No. 10.
- NATO’s DDPR: What to expect and what needs to be done after Chicago, Paul Ingram and Oliver Meier, May 3, 2012.
- The NATO Summit: Recasting the Debate over U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Arms Control Today article by Paul Ingram and Oliver Meier, May 2, 2012.
- NATO’s Deterrence and Defence Posture Review and the Future of Nuclear Weapons, IRIS synthesis report of March 2012 roundtable event in Paris, May 2012.
- A Visit to Moscow: Disarmament, Arms Control, the Role of Nuclear Weapons, and NATO-Russia Strategic Dialogue, Paul Ingram reports on his visit to Moscow from November 28-29, 2011.
- Improving transparency on TNW: Building blocks for a NATO-Russia dialogue, report available on the website of IFSH.
- Roundtable event organized by ACA/BASIC/IFSH, held on November 17-18, 2011 in Berlin.
- The Future of NATO’s Nuclear Weapons, Amb. Rolf Nikel, November 2011, ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper No. 9.
- Revising NATO’s Nuclear Posture: The Way Forward, Oliver Meier, August 2011, ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper No. 8.
- Experts Urge NATO to Reduce Role of Nuclear Weapons and Open the Door for the Removal of U.S. Tactical Warheads, July 18, 2011
–Letter to Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
-Joint Arms Control Association-BASIC press release - NATO’s Nuclear Posture and Burden Sharing Agreements: an Italian Perspective, Laura Spagnuolo, June 15, 2011.
- Italy’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons, Laura Spagnuolo, May 20, 2011 (Italian translation)
- Nuclear Policy Papers from BASIC, IFSH and ACA Reducing the Role of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Perspectives and Proposals on the NATO Policy Debate, Paul Ingram and Oliver Meier, Editors, May 12, 2011
- NATO’s Defense and Deterrence Posture Review: A French Perspective on Nuclear Issues, Paul Zajac, April 2011, ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper No. 7.
- The United States, NATO’s Strategic Concept, and Nuclear Issues, Steven Pifer, April 2011, Nuclear Policy Paper No. 6.
- Turkey, NATO & and Nuclear Sharing: Prospects after NATO’s Lisbon Summit, Mustafa Kibaroglu, April 2011, Nuclear Policy Paper No. 5.
- NATO’s new Strategic Concept and the future of tactical nuclear weapons, Oliver Meier, November 2010, ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper No. 4.
- Current NATO Nuclear Policy, Rt Hon the Lord Browne of Ladyton (Des Browne), November 2010, ACA/BASIC/IFSH, Nuclear Policy Paper No. 3.
- Polish and Central European Priorities on NATO’s Future Nuclear Policy, Lukasz Kulesa, November 2010, ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper No. 2.
- Options for arms control to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in NATO, Ambassador Peter Gottwald, November 2010, ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper No. 1.
Additional recent resources:
- Open Letter to NATO Secretary General re: B61 bombers, BASIC, September 2012
- NATO declaration on nuclear weapons is missed opportunity: BASIC Executive Director, Press Release, May 21, 2012.
- Guest Blog: Paul Ingram on NATO Nuclear Policy, Response to Christopher Ford’s blog post on “NATO, Nuclear Sharing and the INF Analogy,” New Paradigms Forum, April 25, 2011.
- NATO’s Nuclear Deterrence Posture and Baltic Security, Personal report based upon a roundtable held on March 15, 2011 at the International Centre for Defence Studies, Tallinn, Estonia, Paul Ingram, March 31, 2011.
- Experts Call NATO Strategic Concept ‘Missed Opportunity to Reduce Role of Obsolete Tactical Nukes from Europe’, joint BASIC and Arms Control Association press release, November 19, 2010.
- NATO ‘Experts Group’ misses an opportunity for leadership on nuclear posture, joint BASIC and Arms Control Association press release, May 17, 2010.
- Shifting NATO’s Nuclear Posture in 2010, event on Day Six of the NPT Review Conference, BASIC panel discussion at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, May 10, 2010.
- Nuclear Options for NATO, Paul Ingram, BASIC Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference 2010 Papers —4 (PDF), April 2010.
- Considering NATO’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons after the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, Chris Lindborg, BASIC Backgrounder (PDF), April 7, 2010.
- Mind the Gap: healing the NATO rift over U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe (PDF), BASIC, January 2010.
Further Reading:
- UN First Committee and NATO Defence Ministers meeting, Rachel Staley, BASIC This Week, October 8, 2012
- Missile Defense in New York, Chris Lindborg, BASIC This Week, September 24, 2012
- NATO discusses WMD, Rachel Staley, BASIC This Week, June 11, 2012
- Changing the narrative on U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, Anne Penketh, BASIC This Week, April 16, 2012
- Norway’s Approach to NATO’s Deterrence and Defence Posture Review, Julie Ronbeck, BASIC, April 2012
- A Nuclear Posture Review for NATO, Oliver Meier and Paul Ingram, Arms Control Today, October 2010.
- Non-Governmental Organization statement: Now is the time for action on “tactical” nuclear weapons, May 14, 2010.
- NATO nuclear burden sharing and NPT obligations, Laura Spagnuolo, BASIC Getting to Zero Paper (PDF), April 23, 2009.
- Politics around U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in European host states, Claudine Lamond and Paul Ingram, BASIC Getting to Zero Paper (PDF), January 15, 2009.
External Resources:
- Atomic Accounting: A new estimate of Russia’s non-strategic nuclear forces, Igor Sutyagin, RUSI, November 2012
- A Problem Deferred? NATO’s Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons after Chicago, Hugh Chalmers, Malcolm Chalmers, Andrea Berger, RUSI October 2012
- Exit Strategies: The case for redefining NATO consensus on U.S. TNW, Wilbert van der Zeijden, Susi Snyder and Peter Paul Ekker, IKV Pax Christi, April 2012
- Looking Beyond the Chicago Summit: Nuclear Weaons in Europe and the Future of NATO, George Perkovich, Malcolm Chalmers, Steven Pifer, Paul Schulte, and Jaclyn Tandler, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 2012
- Withdrawal Issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, Susi Snyder and Wilbert van de Zeijden, IKV Pax Christi, March 2011
- NATO Nuclear Weapons Policy, Includes letter signed by 36 members of the European Leadership Network in support of reviewing and changing NATO’s nuclear posture, September 27, 2010.
- NATO and nuclear weapons: is a new consensus possible? Steven Andreasen, Malcolm Chalmers and Isabelle Williams, RUSI Occasional Paper (PDF), August 2010.
- NATO’s Tactical Nuclear Dilemma, Malcolm Chalmers and Simon Lunn, RUSI Occasional Paper (PDF), March 2010.
- Nuclear Weapons in Germany: Broaden and Deepen the Debate, George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Policy Outlook (PDF), February 2010.
- NATO’s Strategic Concept (revised version released in November 2010)