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Is the risk of nuclear war increasing?

Nuclear security issues are back on the international agenda. Russia’s war in Ukraine, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, and mounting rivalry between the US and China in East Asia have raised anew concerns about the risks of nuclear war. In this event, this panel examined those risks and the steps that can be taken to reduce them.

Speakers

 

Fred Kaplan 200x200

Fred Kaplan writes on defense matters for Slate Magazine. A New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dr. Kaplan is the author of The Wizards of ArmageddonThe Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, and The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War.

Jeff Legro 200x200

Jeffrey Legro is University Professor at the University of Richmond. An expert on international security, he is the author of numerous books and articles, including Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order and Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11.

Lauren-Sukin-200x200

Lauren Sukin is an assistant professor of international relations at LSE. An editorial fellow at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, she writes about nuclear weapons and alliance politics. Her work has appeared in Journal of Conflict ResolutionNonproliferation Review, and the Washington Quarterly, among other places.

 

Chair

Peter Trubowitz

Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House.

 

Podcast

This event was held on 30 April 2024

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