Project Atom
A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2025–2050
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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
Former Senior Adviser (Non-resident), International Security Program
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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