Overkill: The Case for Reevaluating Nuclear Strategy, Friday 6PM, CGIS K262 -- Free food!!

[Jordan Feri]

Join International Relations on Campus (IRoC) for

Overkill: The Case for Reevaluating Nuclear Strategy

with Benjamin H. Friedman

Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, CATO Institute

Friday, 2-1-13 / 6PM / CGIS K262

Dinner will be provided.

The United States has far more nuclear weapons and delivery systems than deterrence requires. The triad of intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and bomber aircraft reflects bureaucratic Cold War planning, not strategic vision. Can the United States achieve an effective nuclear program which makes us safer, while adapting to the need for a smaller defense budget? Join us for an open discussion of U.S. nuclear strategy and the need to bring it into the 21st century.

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Benjamin H. Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies. His areas of expertise include counter-terrorism, homeland security and defense politics. He is the author of dozens of op-eds and journal articles and co-editor of two books, includingTerrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It, published in 2010. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and an affiliate of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.