Limits to the Use of Nuclear Weapons

Preemptive use of nuclear weapons is completely unacceptable.

Use of nuclear weapons offensively on a country without that country's government having attacked the United States directly with nuclear weapons first is completely unacceptable.

Defensive (retaliatory) use of nuclear weapons should be limited to minimal, strategically vital strikes against nation-states, and should never be used in response to terrorist attacks by non-state actors.

If the United States uses nuclear weapons again, it guarantees that other nuclear powers will, at some point in the future, use their nuclear weapons against us. This outcome is completely unacceptable.

The citizens of the United States will not tolerate violation of these principles, and will take all punitive measures allowed under the laws and Constitution of the United States of America against any government officials who fail to uphold them.