The Nuclear Sharing and Consultation Arrangement in NATO: Origins and Evolution

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25285053
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
• Principal Investigator: IWAMA YOKO 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 教授 (70271004)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小窪 千早 静岡県立大学, 国際関係学部, 講師 (00362559) ; 川嶋 周一 明治大学, 政治経済学部, 専任准教授 (00409492)
• Research Collaborator: ARAKAKI Hiromu 防衛省防衛研究所, 主任研究官 ; GOUROKU Tsuyoshi 二松学舎大学, 国際政治経済学部, 専任講師 ; KOBAYASHI Hiroyuki 高崎経済大学, 非常勤講師 ; Yamazoe Hiroshi 防衛省防衛研究所, 主任研究官 ; Kishi Toshimitsu 毎日新聞社, 部長委員
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 核共有 / 核協議 / 国際関係史 / NATO / 冷戦史 / ヨーロッパ外交史 / NPT / 核不拡散

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this project was to find out how and why NATO nuclear sharing and nuclear consultation system was developed. After four years of investigation of American, British, German and French sources, we are confident that NATO nuclear sharing negotiations had the anxiety about American extended deterrence after the arrival of ICBM age. In order to address this anxiety without resorting to individual national deterrent capabilities, NATO improvised the nuclear consultation system in the end. NPT was the response of US and USSR to the arrival of mutual deterrence, also stemming form the ICBM technology. In the course of NPT negotiation, NATO nuclear deterrent in the form of MLF was negotiated away by the Americans. Thus NATO nuclear consultation system and NPT were both part of a global system and should be considered as a kind of global nuclear order.

Free Research Field

国際関係史