The new U.S. nuclear doctrine should help...

In an interview with The New York Times on Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama offered a sneak preview of his new nuclear strategy.

The Nuclear Posture Review, to be released by the U.S. administration later on Tuesday in Washington, will renounce the development of new nuclear warheads and the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that adhere to treaty commitments.

"The provision that the United States will not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states will go some way toward consolidating the weakening nonproliferation regime," said Mikhail Margelov, head of the international affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament.

He also highlighted the NPR"s threat to countries with nuclear ambitions.

Obama said the United States "will continue to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in deterring non-nuclear attacks."

"To that end, the United States is now prepared to strengthen its long-standing "negative security assurance"

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