Atomic Condominium: The Soviet Union and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1958-1970
Title VIII Research Scholar Jonathan Hunt will consider both the national and international perspective to illuminate how the Kremlin turned to global nuclear governance in the 1960s to consolidate its international status.
Overview
For all the discord that has historically characterized U.S.-Soviet and later U.S.-Russia relations, limiting the further spread of nuclear weapons has been reliably common ground. Since the mid-Cold War, both powers have remained staunch champions of nuclear nonproliferation, even as relations between them have grown increasingly fraught elsewhere. How should we account for this joint campaign against new nuclear powers? Title VIII Research Scholar Jonathan Hunt considered both the national and international perspective to illuminate how the Kremlin turned to global nuclear governance in the 1960s to consolidate its international status.
Speaker
Jonathan Hunt
Visiting scholar at the University of Southampton; assistant professor of strategy at the U.S. Air War College
Jonathan Hunt is a historian of America and the world, a visiting scholar at the University of Southampton, an assistant professor of strategy at the U.S. Air War College, and the author of The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam.
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Kennan Institute
The Kennan Institute is the premier US center for advanced research on Eurasia and the oldest and largest regional program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American understanding of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and the surrounding region though research and exchange. Read more
Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
The Nuclear Proliferation International History Project is a global network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of international nuclear history through archival documents, oral history interviews, and other empirical sources. At the Wilson Center, it is part of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Read more
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