Project on Nuclear Issues

Founded in 2003, PONI is the premier networked community of next generation professionals prepared to meet the nuclear challenges of the future

PONI programs provide creative opportunities for emerging experts from a wide range of backgrounds to learn about nuclear issues and engage thoughtfully with the nuclear community. PONI also conducts cutting-edge research and analysis on three main topic areas: deterrence and escalation, risk reduction and arms control, and disarmament.

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CSIS launched the Project on Nuclear Issues in 2003 to develop the next generation of policy, technical and operational nuclear professionals through outreach, mentorship, research and debate.

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Alternative Nuclear Futures: Capability and Credibility Challenges for U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence

In the next 10 years, U.S. extended deterrence could look notably different than it does today. To explore these issues, the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues used an alternative futures methodology to unpack how key drivers might affect the U.S. extended deterrence mission.

Report by Heather Williams, Kelsey Hartigan, Joseph Rodgers, and Reja Younis — May 8, 2023

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Featured Project: Deterrence 101

Deterrence 101 is a collection of three thirty-minute long videos that explore core deterrence theory. Each video describes basic deterrence concepts, roots these ideas in a historical timeline, and features interviews with leading nuclear policy experts.

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FYSA: For Your Situational Awareness l Issue 6

You can also find links to select upcoming and recent events, publications, media quotes, congressional testimony, and multimedia produced by our scholars and staff.

Newsletter by Clark A. Murdock, Robert D. Lamb and Scott Aughenbaugh, and Jesse Ellman — April 23, 2014

Nuclear Notes

Nuclear Notes is a publication of the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) featuring innovative thinking by rising experts in the nuclear field.

Report by Sarah Weiner — March 31, 2014

PONI Capstone Conference

The final conference of the 2013-2014 PONI Series will be held on March 25 at United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM), Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska.

Event — March 25, 2014

PONI Lunch with Brig. Gen. Jim Dawkins

Please join the Project on Nuclear Issues for a lunch talk with Brigadier General Jim Dawkins, Jr. General Dawkins currently serves within the National Nuclear Security Administration's Defense Programs as the Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application (PADAMA). 

Event — March 6, 2014

PONI Breakfast with Greg Weaver

Please join the Project on Nuclear Issues for a breakfast talk with Gregory Weaver, Principal Director for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.

Event — February 25, 2014

Nuclear Scholars Initiative

The 2013 class of Nuclear Scholars, selected from a very competitive applicant pool, contained some of the best and brightest young professionals in the nuclear field.

Report by Sarah Weiner — January 9, 2014

PONI 2013 Fall Conference

The third conference of the 2013 PONI Series will be held on December 17-18 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.

Event — December 17, 2013

Technology-Strategy Seminar: Electromagnetic Pulse

The next PONI Technology-Strategy Seminar will focus on the threats posed by the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would be produced by high altitude nuclear explosions, as well as by certain natural phenomena, and what can be done to mitigate these threats.

Event — November 6, 2013

2014 Global Forecast


After a dozen years of war, the 2008 financial crisis, budgetary contraction inside government, and growing political polarization, U.S. security policy stands at a crossroads as America finds itself lacking a durable political consensus on the nation’s role in the world.

Report by Craig Cohen, Josiane Gabel, Kathleen H. Hicks, Jon Alterman, David Berteau, Ernest Bower, Samuel Brannen, Victor Cha, Heather Conley, Jennifer Cooke, Zack Cooper, Anthony Cordesman, Ralph Cossa, Matthew Goodman, Michael Green, John Hamre, Murray Hiebert, Christopher Johnson, Andrew Kuchins, and Sarah Ladislaw, Robert Lamb, Maren Leed, James Lewis, Haim Malka, Carl Meacham, Scott Miller, Stephen Morrison, Clark Murdock, Aram Nerguizian, Daniel Runde, Sharon Squassoni, Johanna Nesseth Tuttle, Juan Zarate — November 1, 2013