{"id":57598,"date":"2021-04-16T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/16\/democrats-reintroduce-bill-to-bar-us-from-using-nuclear-weapons-first\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:13:46","slug":"democrats-reintroduce-bill-to-bar-us-from-using-nuclear-weapons-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/04\/16\/democrats-reintroduce-bill-to-bar-us-from-using-nuclear-weapons-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats reintroduce ban on US using nuclear weapons first"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Two key Democratic lawmakers reintroduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/01\/30\/warren-smith-introduce-bill-to-bar-us-from-using-nuclear-weapons-first\/\" target=_blank>legislation<\/a> Thursday that would make it U.S. policy not to use nuclear weapons first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents, including top military leaders, argue the vague threat of nuclear escalation serves as a deterrent to conventional war as well as the use of chemical and biological weapons. But the sponsors \u2015 House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Senate Armed Services Committee member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. \u2015 argue a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2021\/02\/19\/pentagon-deputy-hicks-should-say-yes-to-nuclear-modernization-no-to-a-no-first-use-policy\/\" target=_blank>\u201cno first use\u201d policy<\/a> would lower the risk of an accidental nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States should never initiate a nuclear war,\u201d Smith said in a statement. \u201cThis bill would strengthen deterrence while reducing the chance of nuclear use due to miscalculation or misunderstanding. Codifying that deterring nuclear use is the sole purpose of our nuclear arsenal strengthens U.S. national security and would renew U.S. leadership on nuclear nonproliferation and disbarment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislation faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/03\/22\/battle-over-nuclear-weapons-budget-already-underway\/\" target=_blank>an uphill path through Congress<\/a>, particularly the evenly divided Senate. However some nonproliferation advocates see a possible opening with President Joe Biden, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/nuclear-arsenal\/2021\/01\/19\/as-biden-takes-office-key-nuclear-and-missile-defense-decisions-loom\/\" target=_blank>expected <\/a>to conduct his own Nuclear Posture Review and said as vice president that he was \u201cconfident we can deter and defend ourselves and our allies against nonnuclear threats through other means.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe major risk of nuclear use today comes from the danger that a small or accidental clash or conflict will escalate quickly through confusion or fear and cross the nuclear threshold,\u201d Global Zero\u2019s chief executive, Derek Johnson, said in a statement. \u201cAmerica\u2019s decades-long policy of threatening its own possible first use of nuclear weapons only adds to this danger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/04\/15\/eucom-chief-warns-nato-ready-to-respond-to-aggression\/\" target=_blank>House hearing<\/a> Thursday how allies who rely on America\u2019s nuclear deterrent would react to a \u201cno first use\u201d declaration, U.S. European Command\u2019s Gen. 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