Nuclear Scholars Initiative

A Collection of Papers from the 2014 Nuclear Scholars Initiative

Sarah Minot

• Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781442241091
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: National Security
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Addressing an increasingly complex array of nuclear weapons challenges in the future will require talented young people with the necessary technical and policy expertise to contribute to sound decisionmaking on nuclear issues over time. To that end, the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) runs a yearly Nuclear Scholars Initiative for graduate students and young professionals. Those accepted into the program are hosted once per month at CSIS in Washington, DC, where they participate in daylong workshops with senior government officials and policy experts. Over the course of the six-month program, scholars are required to prepare a research paper. This volume is a collection of the 2014 papers from the Nuclear Scholars Initiative.

Table of contents

• Introduction and Acknowledgments
• U.S.-China Nuclear Dynamics in the Context of a New Model of Major Power Relations
• Expanding the Scope: Setting the Stage for Future U.S.-Russian Arms Control Negotiations
• The Prospects for U.S.-Russian Collaboration after Ukraine
• Bomber Nuclear Culture: On the Cusp of Excellence
• Deception in Covert Nuclear Development
• Rethinking the Origins of North Korea’s Nuclear Program
• Don’t Make Me a Target: Alliance Management, Threat, and Forward Deployments
• Chinese Views of Japanese Nuclear Capabilities and Ambitions
• Maintaining the Nuclear Security Complex for Non-Stockpile Research and Development as the United States Pursues Global Zero
• China’s Modernization: How Improved Technologies Could Enable Changes in Nuclear Policy
• Ghosts of the Nonaligned Past: Debate on U.S. Compliance with NPT’s Article VI
• Employment of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: Proposed Criteria for Use
• A Perfect Record: Assessing Risk and the Human Factor in Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe
• Improving Nuclear Life Extension Program Management: A B61-12 Case Study
• Living on the Hedge: A Nuclear Arsenal for an Insecure Japan
• Bi-/Multilateral Authentication Technology Development Framework for Future Treaty Verification Regimes
• Al Qaeda’s Nuclear Ambitions
• Strategic Stability and Tactical Nuclear Weapons in South Asia
• One in a Million, Given the Accident: Assuring Nuclear Weapons Safety
• Evaluating U.S. Policy Options: Up the Savannah River without a Paddle?