It might sound a little strange at first, but there are actually some very good reasons.
. He personally believed that no American president would ever use nuclear weapons first. But some of his advisers, notably Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, persuaded him not to declare that fact as formal policy, for two reasons. First, some countries, including Russia, had biological weapons, which could be nearly as devastating as nukes if they used them. Yet because we no longer have bio-weapons, we couldn’t “retaliate in kind.
Second, Gates argued, our allies would have a fit. To a degree that most Americans don’t grasp, nuclear weapons remain a centerpiece of our guarantee that we will come to the defense of our allies if they’re under attack. This concept is called “extended deterrence” or the “nuclear umbrella” . Sure enough, when word leaked that Obama was even considering a no-first-use policy, the Japanese foreign minister called the White House in a panic.
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