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Task force report urges US, allies to recommit preventing nuclear proliferation

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 -- A new report argues fraying American alliances and a rapidly changing security environment have begun calling into question America’s nuclear security guarantees and threaten the long-term viability of the 50-year-old nuclear nonproliferation regime. 

 The report by a task force chaired by Chuck Hagel, Malcolm Rifkind, and Kevin Rudd was convened by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, according to a statement.

It offers specific recommendations and a framework to ensure America’s allies will continue to feel secure without requiring their own nuclear weapons.

The report, ‘Preventing Nuclear Proliferation and Reassuring America’s Allies’, is the product of the Task Force on the US Allies and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation.

It consists of a group of 16 former US, European, and Asian foreign and defence ministers and other national security and defence advisers who have been working together for 12 months to develop specific recommendations.

Task force recommendations include: Rebuild US Leadership; Strengthen European Defense Capabilities; Coordinate Multilateral Deterrence in Asia; and, Expand Multilateral Arms Control.

In addition to the co-chairs, the task force membership comprises Nobuyasu Abe, former Commissioner, Japan Atomic Energy Commission; Carl Bildt, former Swedish Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Rick Burt, former US Ambassador to Germany and Chief Negotiator for START; and Curtis Scaparrotti, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, among others.

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