Nuclear Weapons

Each year PONI hosts four conferences that bring together people from across the nuclear enterprise to discuss a range of nuclear issues.
 

Brings a select group of graduate students and young professionals to CSIS for a program consisting of six daylong workshops with senior experts from the field.

Anthony H. Cordesman's up-to-date analysis of strategic challenges facing the United States.

A constant source of reliable analysis on the threats and opportunities shaping U.S. security interests at home and abroad. The program includes such projects as: the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Project on Nuclear Issues, U.S. Defense and National Security, Proliferation Prevention, and others.

The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) aims to build and sustain a networked community of young nuclear experts from the military, national laboratories, industry, academia, and policy communities.

This project provides interested parties with a searchable database of all the major nuclear reports of the last 18 months based on a taxonomy created by the project to capture the key relationships between various aspects of nuclear policy.

The Cohen-Nunn Dialogues focus Americans on the seminal issues that our nation must face.

The purpose of this report is to identify the characteristics of the U.S. nuclear force posture that support extended deterrence and analyze how changes (both positive and negative) in the force posture affect the credibility of U.S. assurance, paying particular attention to the competing needs and interests of U.S. allies.