Think Tank Proposes 'Nuclear Forces Command' at STRATCOM

By Sebastian Sprenger / March 12, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Officials in the next administration should create a three-star Nuclear Forces Command to oversee atomic weapons issues and to give a renewed boost to nuclear deterrence as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The report is the latest in the Washington-based think tank's series of analyses on defense reform published under the label "Beyond Goldwater-Nichols," which refers to the mid-1980s Goldwater-Nichols Act that ushered in closer cooperation...

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