Controlling the World's Most Dangerous Weapons

Preventing nuclear war is one of the truly existential challenges facing the human species.  But nuclear dangers are rising as tensions among nuclear powers increase, nuclear agreements are challenged or discarded, and new technologies and arms competitions create new uncertainties. From Iran to North Korea, from U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Chinese nuclear competition to Syria's deadly chemical assaults, decisions about nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons can make the difference between war or peace and between safety or grave danger for people around the world.  This course will give students an understanding of these weapons and the global efforts to prevent their use and control their spread.

Also offered by the Government Department as Gov 1735.