On the Verge – Sole Purpose Nuclear Doctrine (004)

In this episode, Natasha Bajema, Director of the Converging Risks
Lab at the Council on Strategic Risks, interviews Andy Weber and
John Gower about their proposal for a sole purpose nuclear
doctrine. The Honorable Andy Weber is a Senior Fellow at CSR. He
spent five-and-a-half years as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. He
was a driving force behind Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction
efforts to remove weapons-grade uranium from Kazakhstan and Georgia
and nuclear-capable MiG-29 aircraft from Moldova, to reduce
biological weapons threats, and to destroy Libyan and Syrian
chemical weapons stockpiles. In addition, he coordinated U.S.
leadership of the international Ebola response for the Department
of State. Rear Admiral (ret.) John Gower is a Senior Advisor at
CSR. He served, until his retirement in December 2014, as Assistant
Chief of Defence Staff (Nuclear & Chemical, Biological) in the
UK Ministry of Defense. Previously, he spent nearly half his 36-yr
military career at sea in ships and submarines culminating in the
sequential command of two globally deployed submarines. The Janne
E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons launched a program in
2018 on reimagining arms control. As the international
landscape continues to evolve, successful arms control in the 21st
Century will require new approaches grounded in the mutual security
interests of countries involved. Working in collaboration with
governments and other think tanks from around the world, the Nolan
Center is developing new arms control concepts that countries may
pursue together. This work gives special attention to classes of
nuclear weapons that carry the highest risks of ambiguity,
escalation, and altering strategic calculations; and developing
arms control ideas that could include to Indo-Pacific participants.
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