{"59112":{"#nid":"59112","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Carnegie Funds Academic Work in Nuclear Disarmament","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcademic scholars have been largely absent from the current debate over prospects for eliminating nuclear weapons.  Mainstays of teaching and research in political science and international relations programs during the Cold War, the subjects of nuclear strategy and deterrence, today, are either taken for granted or simply overlooked.  Now, in the midst of increased momentum for a national and global non-proliferation agenda, Adam Stulberg has launched a project to reinvigorate scholarship on the issue: the \u0022Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE): Re-thinking Stability Criteria along the \u0022Road to Zero\u0022 \u0022 .\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Carnegie Corporation of New York has provided a $650,000 grant to support the \u0022Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE): Re-thinking Stability Criteria along the \u0022Road to Zero\u0022 .\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStulberg, Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Co-Director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP), cites unprecedented interest and opportunity for advancing  nuclear disarmament as the impetus for POSSE.  In a speech in Prague April 5th, President Obama announced America\u0027s commitment to nuclear disarmament and a global agenda for pursuing that long-term vision.  Obama noted that, despite the demise of the Cold War, \u0022in a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up.\u0022   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStulberg says that the influence of advocates of a U.S. security policy centered on nuclear weapons is in decline. U.S. leaders including former Senator Sam Nunn, former Secretaries of State George P. Shultz and Henry Kissinger, and former Defense Secretary William Perry have helped spearhead efforts toward nuclear disarmament by policymakers across the globe.  Stulberg also points to research that says that over seventy percent of former leaders of the national security establishment now openly acknowledge the anachronisms of what has been the U.S. strategic force posture and the importance of debating the fundamental value of nuclear weapons.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Policy makers in the U.S. and other nuclear weapons possessors states (NWPS) now enjoy an unprecedented opportunity to transcend the \u0022abolition paradox\u0022  as high-level political support now jibes with mounting concerns about nuclear proliferation, catastrophic terrorism and energy security,\u0022  says Stulberg. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith co-Principal investigator William C. Potter, Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Stulberg plans for POSSE to forge a global network of intergenerational and interdisciplinary scholars including those from the Russian Federation and the People\u0027s Republic of China, and to bring them together with national security policy makers from the eight key nuclear weapons possessing states (NWPS).  POSSE seeks to spur pursuit of new analytic frameworks and methodologies for examining future strategic needs attendant to deep cuts in nuclear weapons and risk reduction: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ll flesh out requirements for \u0022 minimum deterrence\u0027 among the existing NWPS and then explore criteria for strategic stability.  That means looking at how far we can reduce nuclear weapons and maintain stability; incentives to discourage use of residual nuclear weapons; challenges for managing virtual or latent nuclear weapons capabilities; and the prospects and modalities for eliminating nuclear weapons amid a changing global landscape.  We intend to fill knowledge gaps related to conditions and processes for managing conflict among multiple nuclear powers, all of which possess very different force postures\/strategies.  Our hope is to encourage development of the intellectual moorings for the difficult policy choices and strategic conditions need to advance both the visions and steps towards a stable future free from practical concerns about the use nuclear weapons.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program will kick off with an academic workshop following the 2010 Nunn Forum and continue with successive policy workshops in Washington, D.C and on the Georgia Tech campus through the end of 2011.  Applications to participate in the newly formed Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE) are being accepted. Please access the link below for more information.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Academic scholars have been largely absent from the current debate over prospects for eliminating nuclear weapons.  Mainstays of teaching and research in political science and international relations programs during the Cold War, the subjects of nuclear strategy and deterrence, today, are either taken for granted or simply overlooked.  Now, in the midst of increased momentum for a national and global non-proliferation agenda, Adam Stulberg has launched a project to reinvigorate scholarship on the issue: the \u0022Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE): Re-thinking Stability Criteria along the \u0022Road to Zero\u0022 \u0022 .","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"$650,000 grant supports new POSSE project"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2009-11-12 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:50","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59113":{"id":"59113","type":"image","title":"tpm41476.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176217","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:57","changed":"1475894512","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190861","name":"tpm41476.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpm41476_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpm41476_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24062,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpm41476_0.jpg?itok=HYMizLf_"}},"59114":{"id":"59114","type":"image","title":"txi41476.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176217","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:57","changed":"1475894512","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190860","name":"txi41476.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/txi41476_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/txi41476_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3626,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/txi41476_0.jpg?itok=xhLYMhJe"}}},"media_ids":["59113","59114"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.html?name=Adam.Stulberg","title":"More about Adam Stulberg"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/","title":"CISTP"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/flyers\/Call4Aps_POSSE10.14.pdf","title":"See  Flyer"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"10047","name":"non-proliferation"},{"id":"544","name":"Nuclear"},{"id":"10046","name":"NWPS"},{"id":"463","name":"obama"},{"id":"6997","name":"POSSE"},{"id":"167056","name":"stulberg"},{"id":"545","name":"Weapons"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}