A senior Pentagon official said the Biden administration's new nuclear strategy guidelines did not limit the role of nuclear weapons to retaliation against nuclear attacks, but maintained the policies of successive administrations.

Regarding the US nuclear strategy, before President Byden took office, he expressed the idea that deterrence and retaliation for nuclear attacks should be the sole purpose of nuclear weapons, which will guide the new nuclear strategy. In "Review of the Nuclear Posture Review", the focus was on stricter conditions for the use of nuclear weapons.



Under these circumstances, the US Department of Defense announced the outline on the 29th, stating that maintaining nuclear deterrence is a top priority, and "nuclear only in the extreme situation of protecting the vital national interests of the United States and allies. Consider using it. "



Regarding this, Assistant Secretary of Defense Warander of the U.S. Department of Defense was asked at a hearing in the House of Representatives on the 30th whether the conditions of use were stricter than before, but "The wording of this nuclear strategy applies only to nuclear attacks. It is not something that will be done, "he said, recognizing that the sole purpose is not to retaliate against a nuclear attack.



He then revealed that he did not adopt stricter terms of use and maintained the policies of successive administrations.



Media such as the United States have reported that as the threat of nuclear weapons in Russia and China has increased, pressure from allies concerned about the decline in nuclear deterrence has increased, and it seems that the Biden administration has taken this intention into consideration. ..