Is the risk of nuclear war increasing?

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 Armageddon, The 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.

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 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 Resolution, Nonproliferation Review, and the Washington Quarterly, among other places.

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.