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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The Arsenal of Freedom Tour

January 22, 2026 • 3:00 – 4:00 pm EST
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A public discussion series with Heather Williams, Tom Karako, and Kari Bingen offering real-time context and commentary on national security developments and strategic forces issues

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Game On: Opportunities for Euro-Atlantic Strategic Stability and Arms Control

Europe is likely to remain a theater of instability despite pressure for a peace settlement in Ukraine. As the United States shifts toward the Indo-Pacific and Russia continues to pursue its territorial ambitions, what might arms control look like after the war in Ukraine?

Report by Heather Williams, Nicholas Adamopoulos, Lachlan MacKenzie, and Catherine Murphy — April 21, 2025

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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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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

PONI Live Debate: Global Zero

PONI's ongoing live debate series, an extension of the PONI Debates the Issues blog, aims to provide a forum for in-depth exploration of the arguments on both sides of key nuclear policy issues. 

Event — October 22, 2013

Nuclear Notes

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

Report by Edited by Sarah Weiner — September 4, 2013

Project on Nuclear Issues

The Center for Strategic and International Studies launched the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) in 2003 in order to revitalize and strengthen a community of nuclear weapons experts whose training and background increasingly emphasize multidisciplinary expertise, especially among younger generations.

Report by Stephanie Spies and Sarah Weiner — July 8, 2013

2013 PONI Spring Conference

The first conference of the 2013 PONI Series will be held on May 14 and 15 at Hill AFB, Utah, the location of the Program Office for the Minuteman III weapon system. Hosted by Northrop Grumman Corporation, the event will feature presentations by rising experts in the field as well as keynote addresses by prominent experts.

Event — May 14, 2013

PONI 2012 Capstone Conference

The Capstone Conference of the 2012 PONI Series will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) in Omaha, Nebraska.

Event — March 19, 2013

Nuclear Weapons and U.S.-China Relations

This report addresses the increasingly important set of issues surrounding the nuclear forces of the United States and China.

Report by Elbridge A. Colby and Abraham M. Denmark, cochairs; John K. Warden, executive director and PONI Working Group on U.S.-China Nuclear Issues — March 12, 2013