Date and Time
May 4, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Availability
Open to the public
No RSVP required

Speaker
Joseph C. Martz - Consulting Professor at CISAC

This talk is part of the Defusing the Nuclear Threat lecture series.

Joseph Martz is the inaugural William Perry CISAC Fellow at Stanford, on leave from Los Alamos, where he headed their RRW (Reliable Replacement Warhead) design team. This talk reviews US nuclear weapons development and its close linkage to deterrence during the Cold War. Looking forward, the shift in policy to a goal of further reductions in, and ultimate elimination of, nuclear weapons presents new challenges. It will be suggested how – contrary to popular thinking – redesigning our nuclear weapons and reconfiguring the nuclear weapons complex could contribute to further reductions, and potentially, the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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