Nuclear Security and Strategy

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Juris Doctor

This course examines the historical, political, and technical contexts in which nuclear security has been conceived. We’ll cover various framings of nuclear dangers and strategies to mitigate them; the roles of nuclear infrastructures in international politics; great-power nuclear rivalries between the U.S., Russia and China; nuclear weapons effects; the intersections of technological developments with discourses of nuclear deterrence; international regimes of arms control and their future prospects. Basic introduction to nuclear technologies will be woven into qualitative discussion of historical developments and political challenges. The course serves as a survey of nuclear security issues for future analysts, policy makers and concerned citizens who wish to approach nuclear technology from a variety of disciplinary and cultural vantage points.