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In a world where nuclear testing remains politically and strategically constrained, this discussion examines how stockpile stewardship sustains deterrence credibility. Dr. Miller addresses the scientific tools and risk‑management practices that enable confidence in the arsenal amid uncertainty.
Drawing on decades of experience at the forefront of U.S. nuclear security, Dr. George Miller explores how scientific innovation, advanced modeling and simulation, and rigorous risk‑management practices underpin confidence in the nuclear arsenal despite uncertainty. The discussion highlights how stockpile stewardship supports deterrence credibility without nuclear testing, the limits and potential of missile defense technologies, and the implications for long‑term strategic stability.
This seminar offers essential insight for policymakers, analysts, and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of missile defense, deterrence credibility, and the future of nuclear risk management.
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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, counter-terrorism, 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.
George H. Miller Ph.D. served as the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) from 2007 until 2011. He joined the LLNL staff in 1972 as a physicist and held several senior leadership positions, including associate director for nuclear design, associate director for defense and nuclear technologies, and associate director for National Ignition Facility programs. Miller retired as LLNL director in December 2011. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in physics from the College of William & Mary. Miller’s leadership at LLNL was instrumental in securing national nuclear security and advancing the development of advanced energy solutions.
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