The Weekly Debrief: 'No First Use' Nuke Policy Emerges As Election Debate

A decommissioned Minuteman II ICBM in a South Dakota silo.
Credit: Steve Trimble
An American adversary does not really know if the U.S. might—or might not—strike first with a barrage of nuclear missiles, and the head of the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear policy office prefers to keep it that way. Speaking to the Mitchell Institute “from [his] perspective only,” Lt. Gen. Richard Clark...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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