Posturing About the Future of Nuclear Weapons

The next President will conduct yet another Nuclear Posture Review -- the third since the end of the Cold War. What's the point? Will it be any different or just more of the same?

At this May 20 New America event, Dr. Janne Nolan tackled these tough questions and others. Dr. Nolan, currently a professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security after the Cold War, considered to be the definitive study of the 1994 Nuclear Posture Review.

The American Strategy Program's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative is designed to build a new bipartisan consensus around U.S. nuclear policy, posture and forces and renew U.S. leadership on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.

Participants

• Dr. Janne Nolan
  Professor, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
  Professor, Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
  Author, An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security after the Cold War

• Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (moderator)
  Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, New America Foundation
  Publisher, ArmsControlWonk.com