Changing Targets II

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Table of Contents

About The Author 3

Executive Summary 4

Evolution of U.S. Nuclear Strategy 1990-2003 .6

Operation Desert Storm .7

Lessons Learned?.8

The Clinton Administration’s Nuclear Revolution 11

The 1994 Nuclear Posture Review. 13

Regional Counterproliferation Targeting . 17

Fine-Tuning the New Strategy 19

Theater Nuclear Doctrine Detailed 21

New White House Guidance 22

The Challenge To Negative Security Assurances . 23

The 2001 Nuclear Posture Review 27

The Temptation of Preemption. 30

Conclusion . 31

Endnotes: 33