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Submitted URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00407
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Skip to Main Content Advertisement Close * Books * Books Home * Browse Books * Journals * Journals Home * Browse Journals * CogNet * About MIT Press Direct * Customer Support * Librarians Search Dropdown Menu header search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsInternational Security Search Advanced Search User Tools Dropdown Register Sign In Toggle MenuMenu * Issues * About * Editorial Info * Abstracting and Indexing * Release Schedule * Rights and Permissions * Author Resources * Advertising Info * Awards and Honors * IS Off the Page * IS at JSTOR * Submit * Submission Guidelines * Publication Agreement * Open Access * Subscribe Skip Nav Destination Close navigation menu Article navigation Volume 45, Issue 4 Spring 2021 * Previous Article * Next Article Article Navigation April 20 2021 THE RULE OF LAW AND THE ROLE OF STRATEGY IN U.S. NUCLEAR DOCTRINE Scott D. Sagan, Scott D. Sagan Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Allen S. Weiner Allen S. Weiner Allen S. Weiner is Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Program in International and Comparative Law at Stanford Law School. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Scott D. Sagan Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Allen S. Weiner Allen S. Weiner is Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Program in International and Comparative Law at Stanford Law School. Online ISSN: 1531-4804 Print ISSN: 0162-2889 © 2021 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2021 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Security (2021) 45 (4): 126–166. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00407 * Cite Icon Cite * Permissions * Share Icon Share * Facebook * Twitter * LinkedIn * Email * Views Icon Views * Article contents * Search Site Citation Scott D. Sagan, Allen S. Weiner; The Rule of Law and the Role of Strategy in U.S. Nuclear Doctrine. International Security 2021; 45 (4): 126–166. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00407 Download citation file: * Ris (Zotero) * Reference Manager * EasyBib * Bookends * Mendeley * Papers * EndNote * RefWorks * BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsInternational Security Search Advanced Search ABSTRACT In 2013, the U.S. government announced that its nuclear war plans would be “consistent with the fundamental principles of the Law of Armed Conflict” and would “apply the principles of distinction and proportionality and seek to minimize collateral damage to civilian populations and civilian objects.” If properly applied, these legal principles can have a profound impact on U.S. nuclear doctrine. The prohibition against targeting civilians means that “countervalue” targeting and “minimum deterrence” strategies are illegal. The principle of distinction and the impermissibility of reprisal against civilians make it illegal for the United States, contrary to what is implied in the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, to intentionally target civilians even in reprisal for a strike against U.S. or allied civilians. The principle of proportionality permits some, but not all, potential U.S. counterforce nuclear attacks against military targets. The precautionary principle means that the United States must use conventional weapons or the lowest-yield nuclear weapons that would be effective against legitimate military targets. 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