Atlantic Council - NUCLEAR STRATEGY PROJECT - The Scowcroft Center’s namesake, General Brent Scowcroft,

February 2024 Atlantic Council SCOWCROFT CENTER NUCLEAR STRATEGY PROJECT FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY The Scowcroft Center’s namesake, General Brent Scowcroft, was the chairman of the 1983 Scowcroft Commission that established the foundation for US nuclear deterrence and arms control policy through the present day. [...] Our Nuclear Strategy Project, within the Forward Defense program, focuses on the role of nuclear deterrence, nuclear strategy and employment, missile defense, and arms control in deterring conventional aggression and nuclear escalation against the United States, its allies, and partners. [...] Nuclear strategy Arms control Missile defense Emerging threats Shape US nuclear strategy Understand and shape the Shape the relationship between Assess the implications of new and implications for extended changing nature of and role for homeland missile defense and threats and technologies for US deterrence, allied assurance, arms control in the new trilateral US nuclear strategy as it relates nu. [...] Understand and assess which Inform the national and Assess the relationship threats have the greatest international debate concerning between US nuclear deterrence Anticipate and inform the potential for affecting the military potential changes in nuclear requirements and nuclear arms national and international debate balance and nuclear deterrence. [...] SCSS0923A 1030 15TH Street, NW | 12TH Floor | Washington, DC 20005 | 202-463-7226 | AtlanticCouncil.org Atlantic Council SCOWCROFT CENTER SELECT RESEARCH PRODUCTS FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY On US nuclear and missile On deterring Russia On deterring China defense strategy and policy Robert Soofer and Matthew Matthew.