2024 Guest Lectures

• Guest Presentation: Jim Thomas, “The World Replete with
  Advanced Precision Strike Weapons”
• Guest Presentation: Brent Ziarnick, “How Space Power
  Theory Affects One’s Deterrence”
  • Where We’ve Been: Sanctuary School of Space Warfare
  • Where We Are: Space Power Theory
  • What’s Coming: Space Dynamism
• Guest Presentation: Jake Bebber, “How Might We Deter
  China?”
• Guest Presentation: Gregory Jones, “More Than Fissile
  Material: Building a Bomb, the Historical Experience”
  • What did the US need to produce its first nuclear weapons’ core of fissile material?
  • Historically, states produced the nuclear fuel and non-nuclear parts of the bomb at the same time
  • Today, no would be bomb making state would start with a 1945 weapons design
• Guest Presentation: Bruce Goodwin, “Reactor-Grade
  Plutonium’s Weapons Utility”

2023 Guest Lectures

• Kick-off with Paul Bracken
• Guest Presentation: Chris Chen, The World Replete with Advanced Precision Strike Weapons
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• Guest Presentation: Brent Ziarnick, How Space Power Theory Affects One’s Deterrence Outlook
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• Guest Presentation: Jake Bebber, How Might We Deter China?
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• Guest Presentation: Gregory Jones, More Than Fissile Material: Building a Bomb, the Historical Experience
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• Guest Presentation: Bruce Goodwin, Reactor-Grade Plutonium's Weapons Utility
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• Guest Presentation: Henry Sokolski, Nuclear Plants in War
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• Guest Presentation: Thomas Grant, Articles I, II, and VI: New Issues for the NPT
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• Guest Presentation: Eva Lisowski, Grim Prospect: Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
• Guest Presentation: Brian Chow, Technical and Policy Responses to Rendevous Spacecraft and Ground-Based Laser ASATs
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• Guest Presentation: Peter Bradford, Destiny or Delusion: The Saga of Small Modular Reactors
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• Guest Presentation: William Tobey and Richard Lawless, 'Libya As a Nuclear Nonproliferation Intelligence Success' and 'Success in Turning Off the South Korean Program in the 1970s'

 

2022 Guest Lectures

• Guest Presentation: Jim Thomas, The World Replete with Advanced Precision Strike Weapons
• Guest Presentation: Jeffrey Becker and Jake Bebber, What Future Does US Nuclear Deterrence Have? and How Might We Deter China?
• Guest Presentation: Greg Jones, More Than Fissile Material: Building a Bomb, The Historical Experience
• Guest Presentation: Bruce Goodwin, Reactor-Grade Plutonium’s Weapons Utility
• Guest Presentation: Edwin Lyman, Reactors in Warzones: What Could Go Wrong
• Guest Presentation: Victor Gilinsky, International Rules on Military Attacks on Nuclear Power Plants
• Guest Presentation: Eva Lisowski, Grim Prospect: Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
• Guest Presentation: Brian Chow, Technical & Policy Responses to Rendezvous Spacecraft & Ground-Based Laser ASAT
• Guest Presentation: Peter Bradford, Economics of the UAMPS NuScale Reactor Project
• Guest Presentation: William Tobey, Libya As a Nuclear Nonproliferation Intelligence Success

2021 Guest Lectures

• Guest Presentation: Jim Thomas, The World Replete with Advanced Precision Strike Weapons
• Guest Presentation: Eric Brown, How to Deter China
• Guest Presentation: Eva Lisowski, Grim Prospect: Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
• Guest Presentation: Bruce Goodwin and Thomas Cochran, Reactor-Grade Plutonium’s Weapons Utility
• Guest Presentation: Edwin Lyman, What Happened at Fukushima?
• Guest Presentation: Victor Gilinsky, The Rise and Fall of the US Atomic Energy Commission
• Guest Presentation: Gregory Jones, How Quickly Can Iran Get a Bomb?
• Guest Presentation: Brian Chow, Technical and Policy Responses to Rendezvous Spacecraft and Ground-Based Laser ASAT
• Guest Presentation: Peter Bradford, Economics of the UAMPS NuScale Reactor Project
• Guest Presentation: William Tobey, Libya As a Nuclear Nonproliferation Intelligence Success

2020 Guest Lectures

• Guest Presentation: Jim Thomas, The Future of Missile-Driven Wars
• Guest Presentation: William Burr and Mark Gunzinger, Launching ICBMs on Warning and under Attack
• Guest Presentation: Thomas Cochran, How Much Fissile Material Is ‘Significant’?
• Guest Presentation: Bruce Goodwin, Reactor Grade Plutonium’s Weapons Utility
• Guest Presentation: Ed Lyman, What Happened at Fukushima
• Guest Presentation: Michael Hohensee, Plowshares Project
• Guest Presentation: Greg Jones, Is Safeguarding Enrichment and Reprocessing Possible
• Guest Presentation: Brian Chow, Space Diplomacy & the Ground-based Laser ASAT & Robot Satellite Threats
• Guest Presentation: Peter Bradford, Economics of the UAMPS NuScale Reactor Project
• Guest Presentation: William Tobey, Libya As a Nuclear Nonproliferation Intelligence Success