Project Atom Report Launch

Please join the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) to discuss the findings of PONI’s Project Atom report. At this public event, the project’s authors and other senior experts will examine the report’s conclusions about U.S. force structure and the need for more flexible capabilities. Panel topics include nuclear flexibility and deterring two peers competitors, the impacts of increased flexibility on credibility with allies and adversaries, and obstacles to building a more flexible force. Please see the event agenda below. 

Project Atom: The Future of the Nuclear Force

Introduction
9:00 am
Heather Williams; Director, Project on Nuclear Issues, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Panel 1: Nuclear Flexibility and Deterring Two Peer Competitors
9:10 am
Leonor Tomero; Vice President for Government Relations, JA Green and Company

Gregory Weaver; Principal, Strategy to Plans LLC

Jon Wolfsthal; Director, Global Risk, Federation of American Scientists

Franklin Miller; Principal, The Scowcroft Group

Break
10:20 am

Panel 2: Nuclear Flexibility and Credibility with Adversaries and Allies
10:35 am
Elaine Bunn; Senior Advisor, Project on Nuclear Issues, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Robert Soofer; Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council

Lunch
11:45 am

Panel 3: Obstacles to Building a More Flexible Nuclear Force
12:15 pm
Madelyn Creedon, President, Green Marble Group LLC

Justin Anderson; Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Defense University

Rebeccah Heinrichs; Director, Keystone Defense Initiative, Hudson Institute

Concluding Remarks
1:25 pm
Heather Williams

This event is made possible through the generous support of the Northrop Grumman Corporation