Project Atom: A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 20252050 [Paperback]

Project Atom is a forward-looking, blue-sky review of U.S. nuclear strategy and posture in a 2025-2050 world in which nuclear weapons are still necessary. The report highlights and addresses the current deficit in national security attention paid to the continued relevance and importance of U.S. nuclear strategy and force posture, provides a new open-source baseline for understanding the nuclear strategies of other countries, and offers a credible, intellectually tested, and nonpartisan range of options for the United States to consider in revising its own nuclear strategy.Clark Murdock is a senior adviser and director of the Project on Nuclear Issues at CSIS. Samuel J. Brannen is senior manager at A.T. Kearneys Global Business Policy Council. Thomas Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program at CSIS. Angela Weaver is a research assistant with the Defense and National Security Group at CSIS.