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President Kennedy: MAD & the Lessons of Berlin and Cuba

By Peter Huessy – Oct 02, 2026

Nuclear weapons and the deterrent strategy accompanying their deployment are sometimes poorly understood. For the general public that is understandable given the complexities of preventing nuclear war. What is most worrisome are those “experts” who widely…

Nuclear Insurance You Can Bank On

By Peter Huessy – Sept 21, 2026

The Congressional Budget Office is charged by Congress to carefully examine the spending implications of government funded programs including those in the Department of War. Some decades ago, CBO assessed the cost of the nation’s nuclear deterrent particularly the Triad of strategic bombers, submarines and the sea launched ballistic missiles they…

Always Blame America

By Peter Huessy – Sept 11, 2026

In “The Powder Keg in Outer Space” Jeffrey Lewis warns the United States, Russia, and China may not yet be in an arms race, but they are gearing up for one. He worries that “Washington is building a new intercontinental ballistic missile, strategic bomber, and ballistic missile submarine.” And Russia is developing a “heavy ICBM and a new warhead while planning upgrades…

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Bad Guys with Nukes & Iran

with Peter Huessy (Nuclear Weapons Authority)- June 27, 2026

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Peter Huessy is joining the John Batchelor Show as a weekly guest specializing in nuclear deterrence on Wednesday evenings. He has been a guest contributor for many years.

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Host of Huessy Seminars, Mr. Peter Huessy is President of his own defense consulting firm, Geostrategic Analysis, founded in 1981, and from 2021-3, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. From 1981-1992, he was also the National Security Fellow at the AFPC, IFPA and JINSA. He was then the senior defense consultant at the National Defense University Foundation for 22 years during which he hosted over 750 national security seminars and public policy events. And from 2013-2021 he directed similar public policy outreach with the Air Force Association on nuclear, missile defense and space policy.

Mr. Huessy has served as an expert defense and national security analyst for over 50 years, helping his clients cover congressional activities, arms control group efforts, nuclear armed states actions, and US administration nuclear related policy, budgets, and strategies, while monitoring budget and policy developments on nuclear deterrence, ICBM modernization, missile defense, space, nuclear arms control, and overall nuclear modernization.

He also analyzes the nuclear activities of North Korea, China, and Iran. This also includes monitoring activities of think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and other US government departments, as well as projecting future actions of Congress in this area. His specialty is developing and implementing public policy campaigns to secure support for important national security objectives. And analyzing nuclear related technology and its impact on public policy, including a study of which he prepared for the Aerospace Corporation in 2019. He contributed to a NIDS nuclear policy book in 2023, and for over 40 years has authored a weekly nuclear report “The ICBM Ear.”