Project Atom

A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2025–2050

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.

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Clark A. Murdock

Clark A. Murdock

Former Senior Adviser (Non-resident), International Security Program
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Tom Karako
Director, Missile Defense Project and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department

Barry Blechman

Co-founder and Former Chairman, Stimson Center

Elbridge Colby

Robert M. Gates Fellow, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Keith B. Payne

Professor and Head, Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University (Washington Campus)

Russell Rumbaugh

Former Senior Associate, Stimson Center

Thomas Scheber

Vice President, National Institute for Public Policy

Samuel J. Brannen

Senior Manager, Global Business Policy Council, A.T. Kearney

Angela Weaver

Program Coordinator and Research Assistant, Defense and National Security Group