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Abstract
The New US Nuclear Doctrine : Revolution in Strategic Concepts ? With the end of the Cold War, it was largely hoped that States would enter into a phase of disarmament. From this perspective, the nuclear deterrence and the concept of balance of powers seemed outdated. However, today the United States is facing new threats ; in order to combat them, the new nuclear policy, praised by the American army, recommends that the nuclear arsenal be modernized so that the president may have at his disposal a complete set of weapons, allowing him to deter all attempts of assault. Therefore, the eventuality of the use of nuclear weapons is trivialized, and efforts at deterrence are weakened. Although the Russian-American agreement, signed in Moscow on the 24th of May 2002, looked like a disarmament agreement, it does not prevent the two countries from continuing to developing their arsenal. Thus, in the century to come, the American arsenal will be maintained at the same level as that reached by the end of the Cold War.