Mark Bell, Julia MacDonald, and Sharon Weiner discuss their papers on nuclear crisis, asking: How dangerous are nuclear crises? What dynamics underpin how they unfold? Recent tensions between North Korea and the United States have exposed profound disagreement among scholars and analysts.

Matthew Adamson presents his work France’s nuclear reach.

Sonja Amadae presents her work on republican theory and the paradox of sovereignty in the nuclear age.

Difficult relations among some of the nuclear-armed powers have contributed to an atmosphere that lends itself to the onset of crisis. With a proportion of existing arsenals already on high alert status, the warning and decision time available to nuclear decisionmakers is short in crisis situations. How does this affect thresholds against use of nuclear weapons? What are feasible means to reduce the risk of nuclear detonations happening?

Presentation and discussion of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017 by Mycle Schneider, Juan Rodriguez and Andreas Rüdiger.

Presentation by Benoît Pelopidas at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch

Roberto Cantoni presents his work in the Seminar on The Politics of Epistemic Vulnerability in The Nuclear Age.

A USPC Security Chair Workshop

Benoit Pelopidas acted as a discussant for the defense of Alex Bollfrass' dissertation "The Half Lives of Others: The Democratic Advantage in Proliferation Assessment" at Princeton University.

A PIIRS public lecture on the Nuclear Knowledges research program