Hopkins at Home: Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy

Description

Nuclear weapons have long played a central but often unappreciated role in American grand strategy. In spite of the unimaginable consequences of their use in war, we know far less about how the bomb shapes U.S. national security and world politics than we should. Both our leading theories and histories have failed to fully explain important choices American leaders have made about the bomb over the past eight decades.

Led by Frank Gavin, a distinguished professor and director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, this lecture seeks to disturb this complacency about the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. grand strategy to explore important questions: What is the rationale for these weapons, and how do they advance America's interests in the world?

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