NATO's new strategic concept provides no answers to the question how the alliance will account for Obama's goal of a nuclear-free world. The positions of the NATO member states differ vastly concerning the issue of nuclear disarmament – with for example France being the European nuclear weapons state and Germany as a deploying state willing to disarm. These differences are also reflected in the strategy: It is a political compromise among democratic alliance partners holding very contrasting views on the topic.
In HSFK-Report 08/2010 "Das Neue Strategische Konzept der NATO und die Zukunft der nuklearen Abrüstung in Europa" (NATO's new strategic concept and the future of nuclear disarmament in Europe), Matthias Dembinski and Harald Müller present the positions of selected NATO member states as well as Russia. Finally, the authors show ways of how nuclear disarmament is achievable without pressuring the cohesion of the alliance.
The report can be ordered at PRIF for EUR 6,- and is also available as free pdf download.