A program announced in 1995 by Secretary of Defence William Perry favors military force as a main plank of preventing proliferation. NATO has been brought into this strategy, which includes pre-emptive nuclear strikes against proliferators. No one thinks this strategy is relevant in Asia, and yet it has soaked up most of Washington's political energy. A new strategy should place the elimination of nuclear arms at center stage. Much of the work towards the elimination of nuclear arms has been carried out by non-governmental experts, and the vast majority of countries who do not have nuclear arms have long lobbied to ban the bomb.
Western policy is likely to worsen situation in Asia and globally.
This would attempt to control Indian and Pakistani policy by assisting with their nuclear weapon and military programs. Early in the Clinton Administration, National Security Council officials floated the concept of giving nuclear proliferators high quality nuclear detonators to avoid accidents. Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago argued recently in the Wall Street Journal that nuclear proliferation would provide strong deterrence and therefore proliferation is beneficial. The US and its NATO look set to harden their own nuclear policies which include preparing allies like Belgium Greece and Turkey to use nuclear weapons. This includes the first use of nuclear arms and a permanent requirement for nuclear arms.