AFF/NO FIRST USE POLICY
NO FIRST USE POLICY WOULD CALM OUR NON-NUCLEAR ALLIES
David Gompert, Kenneth Watman, Dean Wilkening, RAND Corporation, 1995, U.S. Nuclear Declaratory Policy: The Question of Nuclear First Use
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR596/mr596.html //VT2002acslnA U.S. promise not to use nuclear weapons against conventional attacks would go far toward refuting the criticism of non-nuclear-weapons states that the United States unfairly insists that others forswear nuclear weapons while remaining free itself to use them whenever it sees fit.
NO FIRST USE POLICY ALSO DETERS WMD ATTACK ON THE USA
David Gompert, Kenneth Watman, Dean Wilkening, RAND Corporation, 1995, U.S. Nuclear Declaratory Policy: The Question of Nuclear First Use
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR596/mr596.html //VT2002acslnBesides committing the United States not to use nuclear weapons against conventional attacks, this policy would send a message that any nation using any type of weapon of mass destruction against U.S. interests could suffer a U.S. nuclear response. By embracing the principle that the only legitimate use of weapons of mass destruction is in response to a WMD attack, the United States would strengthen deterrence. At the same time it would reduce the incentive some states may have for acquiring weapons of mass destruction, namely to intimidate the United States and U.S. allies. Hence, a no-WMD-first-use declaratory policy would be a wise step as the United States redefines the role of nuclear weapons in the emerging security environment.
NO FIRST USE POLICY SHOULD BE ADOPTED IMMEDIATELY
The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 1996
http://www.dfat.gov.au/cc/cc_report_exec.html //VT2002acslnThe nuclear weapon states should agree and state that they would not be the first to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against each other and that they would not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons in any conflict with a non-nuclear weapon state. Such an agreement should be brought into operation as soon as possible.
THE USA SHOULD RENOUNCE THE FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
David Gompert, Kenneth Watman, Dean Wilkening, RAND Corporation, 1995, U.S. Nuclear Declaratory Policy: The Question of Nuclear First Use
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR596/mr596.html //VT2002acslnThis report reexamines the doctrine of nuclear "first use" that figured centrally in American and NATO strategy for decades. Specifically, it argues for the adoption of a U.S. declaratory policy that renounces the first use of any weapon of mass destruction. This research was sponsored with RAND corporate funds in the interest of furthering discussion and debate on future U.S. nuclear weapons policy. It has benefited from a broader investigation of deterrence in the post-Cold War era conducted by two of the authors--Kenneth Watman and Dean Wilkening.[1]
WE SHOULD ADOPT A NO FIRST USE POLICY
David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. May 25, 2000 It's Time to End the Nuclear Weapons Threat
http://www.peacenet.org/disarm/ //VT2002acslnThird, we should declare a policy of No First Use of nuclear weapons. There is no conceivable reason for attacking first with nuclear weapons or any other weapon of mass destruction and that should be our policy.