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New US Nuclear Weapons Strategy Threatens Third World
**A new nuclear weapons strategy has been proposed in the US which may add non-nuclear Third World nations to its list of potential targets.
WASHINGTON : The administration of US President George Bush is considering adopting a new nuclear weapons strategy that could Include targeting nonnuclear nations tn the Third World, according to new reports here.
The strategy, prepared by a high-ranking group from the US defence department, also urges Washington to cut Its strategic nuclear arsenal far beyond limits set by 1991's strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
It suggests retaining about 5.000 nuclear weapons — roughly half of what it has today, but substantially more than the 1.500 nuclear arms which France, Britain and China and believed to be holding.
The strategy, particularly those parts which deal with targeting non-nuclear states — is likely to fuel a public controversy over US security requirements tn the post-Cold war era. when Washington s chief adversary for almost 50 years no longer exists.
Accounts of the classified report appeared recently in Washington Post and Los Angeles Times newspapers, and also appeared in December 1991 In a Pentagon publication. Inside the Army in an article entitled, The role of nuclear weapons in a new world order'.
The core elements of the proposed strategy consists of retaining a smaller strategic nuclear force targeted against every reasonable adversary tn the world.
It also proposes creating a nuclear expeditionary force' which could be used against Third World targets suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction or engaging in hostile actions against Washington, according to published accounts.
This marks a major break from Cold war strategy which assumed that nuclear weapons would be used only against other nuclear posers
For most of the past 45 years, strategic nuclear warheads are believed to have targeted Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China only, although analysts here believe contingency plans have also existed for attacks on North Korea. North Vietnam and Ci±a
The final component of the plan also calls for continued targeting of some of the former Soviet republics as insurance, in the event that the post-Soviet experiment In democracy and freedom falls'.
The report Is especially notable for the depletion of the Third World as a source of continuing threats to the United States
‘The Third World', the report says, 'is the scene of almost continuous violence at varying levels of intensity. It is divided into regions where long-standing animosities, simmering resentment toward the wealtheir parts of the global community, personal ambitions of autocratic rulers, and the chronic absence of domestic constraints on aggressive behaviour frequently erupt into violent conflicts. The proliferation of advanced weapons to Third World militaries adds to the power-keg atmosphere'
The report paints a similar picture of China during leadership succession straggles and of parts of the former Soviet Union, which could disintegrate Into prolonged, brutal, internal conflicts like those seen in Lebanon (or) Yugoslavia’. The post quotes the report as saying that in the absence of a credible nuclear deterrent extended by the United States. Germany and Japan may. In the future, opt for a nuclear option of their own, despite to he prohibitions and Inhibl tlons.
Failure to maintain Us nuclear domination could spur proliferation, It argues. 'If the United States moves from superpower to being an equal, others may decide to become equals as well', says the transcript of briefing reportedly given by the senior air-force officer^ who authored the report
The notion that the new targeting strategy may discourage proliferation has been attacked by Independent analysts here.
Dan Homer, acting director of the Washington-based Nuclear Control Institute, told IPS that such a theory Is 'not supported either by historical precedent or by logic'. He noted that regional nuclear arms races In the Middle East and South'Asla were Justified in each of the countries Involved by citing the nuclear
threat posed by the other
Some countries might think that being a nuclear target la a good reason to get nuclear weapons said David Johnson of the Centre for Defence Information (CDI) here. — THIRD WORLD NETWORK FEATURES /IPS