Thomas Fingar

Fingar is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis.

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Articles by Thomas Fingar

Opinion
20 May 2011
Nuclear Weapons

How China views US nuclear policy

Thomas Fingar

A year ago the Obama administration released its congressionally mandated Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) on the role of nuclear weapons in defending the United States and its allies and partners. Defense planners and national security specialists around the globe eagerly awaited the report to see how it would embody the president's commitment to reducing the role of nuclear weapons in US strategy, and how it would differ from the strategy prepared by the Bush administration in 2001.