Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy

Kissinger, "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, Harper, NY(1957) 14)G.A.W. 

In the spring of 1957 former AEC chairman Gordon Dean asked Robert Oppenheimer to comment on Henry Kissinger s forthcoming book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. Oppenheimer responded ... 

Concern about the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and their means of delivery has reached exceptional levels. On November 14, 1994, the President of the United States found that ...the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons ( weapons of mass destruction ) and of the means of delivering such weapons, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. He declared a national emergency to deal with the threat. This executive order (12938) was extended on November 8, 1995 November 12, 1996 and again on November 12, 1997. 

This was, for example, implicit in the evidence of Dr Fred Ikle to the Committee on Armed Services, US House of Representatives, May 8 1974. Ninety-Third Congress, Second session, HASC No. 93-69, pp. 9-10. A study group set up by Republican congressmen in 1969 concluded that tactical nuclear weapons provided an effective deterrent to chemical attack. CBW and National Security - November 3 1969, published in Hearings Before the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, pp. 290-1.)... 

Statement before the Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services Committee, 10 April 1985, cited in Binary Chemical Weapons selected Documents, prepared by the Sub-committee on Arms Control, International Security and Science of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 1986. For a detailed account of NATO requirements, see Julian Perry Robinson, NATO Chemical Weapons Policy and Posture. 

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