Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liberty - MP | Judge: Cameron Norris
Text ---- The United States Executive Branch should establish a declaratory policy that the United States will not use nuclear weapons against a governmental entity, proxy, or group that has not used nuclear weapons against another governmental entity or group.

1) The plan is action policy while the CP is declaratory policy – the CP allows pre-emptive nuclear use in cases of incontrovertible evidence of an imminent nuclear strike against the US
Tertrais 09 – Senior Research Fellow at the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research and Contributing Editor to Survival
(Bruno, “The Trouble with No First Use” in “Forum: The Case for No First Use: An Exchange,” 9-28-09, Survival 51:5, accessed 9-16-13 Bosley)
"The nuance is important... contrary to what sources quoted by Sagan claim, there is no evidence that the 2001 Nuclear Posture Re - view included this option."

2)Solves the case – perceived the same and doesn’t case backlash if we do have to use nuclear weapons first
Feiveson and Hogendoorn 03
(Harold Feiveson – senior research scientist and co-director of the Program in Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and Ernst Hogendoorn – Ph.D. Candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, “No First Use of Nuclear Weapons,” Summer 2003, The Nonproliferation Review, http://cns.miis.edu/npr/pdfs/102feiv.pdf, accessed 9-16-13 Bosley)
"In extremis, of course... U.S. flaunting of a prior declaratory commitment would weigh much in how the world viewed the U.S. actions."

3)The net-benefit – prohibiting all cases of first-use dooms thousands of lives – declaratory policy allows for damage-limitation strikes
Tertrais 09 – Senior Research Fellow at the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research and Contributing Editor to Survival
(Bruno, “The Trouble with No First Use” in “Forum: The Case for No First Use: An Exchange,” 9-28-09, Survival 51:5, accessed 9-16-13 Bosley)
"A no-first-use policy might also have security costs beyond deterrence... is giving up the possibility of saving hundreds of thousands of his citizens."

Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liberty - MP | Judge: Cameron Norris
1)US heg high now
Hanson, 12
(Victor Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, 2/8/12, “A Post-American World?”, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290335/post-american-world-victor-davis-hanson?pg=1)
"Post-Americans certainly have put themselves in a financial jam by borrowing an additional $12 trillion since 2000... it is more likely that we are in a pre-American than a post-American age."

2)Limiting pres war powers kills heg
Yoo, 12
(John, American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration, "War Powers Belong to the President", Feb 1, www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president)
"Our Constitution has succeeded because it favors swift presidential action in war... untested changes in the way we make war."

3)Heg collapse triggers every impact
Kagan, 12
(Robert Kagan, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and serves on the foreign policy advisory board for the Secretary of State, “Why the World needs America”, 2/11/12, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213262856669448.html)
"History shows that world orders, including our own, are transient... or have the capacity to preserve it, even if they wanted to."