Reducing the Role of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Perspectives and Proposals on the NATO Policy Debate

Submitted by Tim Farnsworth on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 00:00

Edited by Paul Ingram and Oliver Meier

This report, produced by the Arms Control Association (ACA), the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), contains a selection of views from participants in series of ACA-BASIC-ISFSH policy seminars held in 2010 and 2011.

"Reducing the Role of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Perspectives and Proposals on the NATO Policy Debate" examines the debate about NATO nuclear policy leading up to and beyond NATO's November 2010 Lisbon summit. The report includes essays by leading European and American experts and officials, such as German Ambassador Peter Gottwald, Lukasz Kulesa from Poland, former British defense secretary Des Browne, Mustafa Kibaroglu of Bilkent University in Turkey, Paul Zajac of the French embassy in Berlin, and Steven Pifer of the Brookings Institution.

PDF version of the report.