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With the expiration of New START in February 2026, the United States confronts a strategic environment defined by two nuclear peer competitors and the end of formal bilateral constraints. This presentation with Joe Oder, examines how a credible, modernized U.S. nuclear deterrent underwrites both deterrence and any future diplomacy aimed at attaining reciprocal restraint and broader strategic stability. It also explores conventional-nuclear integration and credible escalation-management options as a means of raising adversary nuclear thresholds to strengthen deterrence.
Speakers
Peter Huessy is President of Geostrategic Analysis and a Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS). A nationally recognized defense and national security analyst with more than five decades of experience, he specializes in nuclear deterrence, strategic modernization, missile defense, arms control, and U.S. national security policy. He is the founder and host of the long-running Huessy Seminar series and has advised Congress, defense organizations, and policymakers on strategic deterrence issues for decades.
Joe Oder
Joseph M. Oder is a Senior Executive Service (SES) leader serving as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration at Headquarters U.S. Air Force. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, he brings more than 25 years of experience in nuclear weapons, strategic deterrence, counterproliferation, and national security. Throughout his distinguished military and civilian career, Mr. Oder has held senior leadership positions within the U.S. Air Force and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), overseeing nuclear modernization, stockpile sustainment, and strategic deterrence policy. In his current role, he provides executive leadership for Air Force nuclear programs and advises senior leaders on the readiness, modernization, and integration of the nation’s nuclear capabilities.
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