Project Atom
A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2025-2050
1st Edition
Published on 10. June 2015
154 pages
978-1-4422-4089-6 (ISBN)
Description
Project Atom is a forward-looking, "blue-sky" review of U.S. nuclear strategy and posture in a 2025-2050 world in which nuclear weapons are still necessary. The report highlights and addresses the current deficit in national security attention paid to the continued relevance and importance of U.S. nuclear strategy and force posture, provides a new open-source baseline for understanding the nuclear strategies of other countries, and offers a credible, intellectually tested, and nonpartisan range of options for the United States to consider in revising its own nuclear strategy.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-4422-4089-6 (9781442240896)
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Clark Murdock | Samuel J. Brannen | Thomas Karako
Project Atom
A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2025-2050
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06/2015
Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S.
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Persons
Clark Murdock is a senior adviser and director of the Project on Nuclear Issues at CSIS. Samuel J. Brannen is senior manager at A.T. Kearney's Global Business Policy Council. Thomas Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program at CSIS. Angela Weaver is a research assistant with the Defense and National Security Group at CSIS.
Content
- Project Atom
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- Project Atom: A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2025-2050
- Study Objective
- Methodological Approach
- Defining the 2025-2050 Security Environment
- 2025-2050: The Role or Function of U.S. Nuclear Weapons
- 2025-2050: Recommended U.S. Nuclear Strategy
- 2025-2050: Recommended U.S. Nuclear Posture
- Final Thoughts
- Appendix A. Project Atom Participants and Subject Matter Experts
- Appendix B. Project Atom Timelines
- Appendix C. Protecting U.S. Security by Minimizing the Role of Nuclear Weapons: A New U.S. Nuclear Policy
- Appendix D. A Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2030
- Appendix E. An Adaptable Nuclear Force for the 2030+ Security Environment
- Appendix F. Project Atom Key Points of Comparison
- Appendix G. Characteristics of a Future Nuclear Force: Smaller, Lower, Newer, More Diverse, and More Integrated
- Appendix H. Template and Framing Assumptions for Think Tank Team Papers
- Appendix I. Technological Possibilities for Nuclear Weapons in 2025-2050
- Appendix J. Adversary Nuclear Strategies: 2030+
- Appendix K. 2030+ Security Environment: The "Likely Future" and Several Alternative Worlds
- About the Authors
