Expert Bio

Leopoldo Nuti is professor of history of international relations and coordinator of the international studies section of the doctoral school in political science at the Roma Tre University. A graduate of the Universities of Florence (Laurea), George Washington University, (M.A. in International Affairs) and Rome (Ph.D. in History of International Relations), Professor Nuti has been a Fulbright student, NATO Research Fellow, Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Research Fellow at the CSIA, Harvard University, Research Fellow for the Nuclear History Program, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He has published extensively in Italian, English, and French on U.S.-Italian relations and Italian foreign and security policy. His books include: L'esercito italiano nel secondo dopoguerra, 1945-1950. La sua ricostruzione e l'assistenza militare alleata, (Roma: Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore Esercito, 1989), I missili di ottobre. La storiografia americana e la crisi cubana del 1962 (Milano: LED, 1994), Gli Stati Uniti e l'apertura a sinistra. Importanza e limiti della presenza americana in Italia (Roma: Laterza, 1999). His latest book is a history of nuclear weapons in Italy during the Cold War, La sfida nucleare. La politica estera italiana e le armi nucleari, 1945-1991, (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007).

Wilson Center Project

“History of Italian Nuclear Deployments; Italian Perplexities About the Non-Proliferation Treaty; and the Military Implications of the Italian Civilian Program.”