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As the United States confronts the unprecedented challenge of deterring two major nuclear powers simultaneously, critical questions are emerging about the future of deterrence, force structure, and strategic stability. Join Dr. Matthew Kroenig, one of America’s leading experts on nuclear strategy, for a timely discussion on the evolving nuclear landscape.
The seminar will examine whether the current U.S. nuclear posture is sufficient to deter both China and Russia, the implications of China’s rapid nuclear expansion, and the modernization priorities shaping deterrence under the Trump administration. Discussion topics will include the future of the nuclear triad, warhead requirements after New START, theater nuclear forces, escalation risks in the Indo-Pacific, and the challenges of maintaining credible extended deterrence in an increasingly dangerous world.
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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 through 2021, Director of Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute on Aerospace Studies. He was the senior defense consultant at the National Defense University Foundation for 22 years. He was the National Security Fellow at the AFPC, and Senior Defense Consultant at the Air Force Association from 2011-2016.
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, nuclear arms control, and overall nuclear modernization. He has also covered nuclear terrorism, counterterrorism, immigration, state-sponsored terrorism, missile defense, weapons of mass destruction, especially US-Israeli joint defense efforts, nuclear deterrence, arms control, proliferation, as well as tactical and strategic air, airlift, space and nuclear matters and such state and non-state actors as North Korea, China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al Qaeda. 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, a study of which he prepared for the Aerospace Corporation in 2019.
Matthew Kroenig is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a tenured professor at Georgetown University. He has served in the Department of Defense and intelligence community under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations and currently served on the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. A leading expert on U.S. national security, strategic deterrence, and great power competition, Kroenig is the author or editor of eight books, including The Return of Great Power Rivalry and The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and a frequent contributor to major national and international media outlets.
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