[美国核军工管理局网站2007年7月24日报道]美国能源部部长塞缪尔·博德曼与国防部部长和国务卿共同向国会提交了一份关于布什政府未来核武器战略的文件。这份名为《国家安全与核武器:在21世纪保持核威慑》的文件,不仅回顾了冷战期间的核威慑历史,还指出了如何使用核威慑来应对目前和未来的安全威胁,以及为了应对这些威胁,美国在21世纪需要怎样的 [US Nuclear Regulatory Agency website July 24, 2007] US Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, together with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, submitted to the Diet a paper on the Bush administration’s future nuclear weapons strategy. The document entitled “National security and nuclear weapons: maintaining nuclear deterrence in the 21st century” not only reviews the history of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War, but also points out how nuclear deterrence can be used to address current and future security threats and in response to these Threat, what the United States needs in the 21st century