Welcome, everyone to the Woodrow Wilson center. We are congressionally chartered scholars, ship driven and fiercely nonpartisan. And we are also happy to welcome all of you here today. And cspan, which is also filming this for their book talk. So thank you all at wilson. We are proud of our scholarship we use it to power our discussion of the critical challenges facing today. Rob litvack snow book focuses on one of the most immediate challenges triple or instability and Nuclear Competition among United States, russia and china. Best of for all of you and for people who are participating online. I want you to know this book is available as an ebook for free from the and you can find it online on our website. So for this discussion i am very to be sharing the stage with the best of the best. Rob litvack is the Wilson Center Senior Vice President and director of interNational Security. His Strategic Vision has really shaped the Wilson Center itself in his deep knowledge and critical think
Welcome, everyone to the Woodrow Wilson center. We are congressionally chartered scholars, ship driven and fiercely nonpartisan. And we are also happy to welcome all of you here today. And cspan, which is also filming this for their book talk. So thank you all at wilson. We are proud of our scholarship we use it to power our discussion of the critical challenges facing today. Rob litvack snow book focuses on one of the most immediate challenges triple or instability and Nuclear Competition among United States, russia and china. Best of for all of you and for people who are participating online. I want you to know this book is available as an ebook for free from the and you can find it online on our website. So for this discussion i am very to be sharing the stage with the best of the best. Rob litvack is the Wilson Center Senior Vice President and director of interNational Security. His Strategic Vision has really shaped the Wilson Center itself in his deep knowledge and critical think
It is just getting underway. Just the narrow focus of Nuclear Deterrents. Having recently served as a commissioner on the strategic, Posture Commission is incredibly urgent that we look at deterrence in a broader lens. Looking at strategic deterrents of which of course Nuclear Deterrents is a key foundation. The reason we need to look at this more broadly is we are facing new threats. New threats of escalation. New domains that can lead to rapid or inadvertent escalation in competition or conflict with china and russia. New domains such as space, cyber. Adversaries might be able to take more risks and we have Strategic Systems that are vulnerable, for example in space. And that could lead to miscalculation or rapid escalation to Nuclear Weapons use. To deal with these new threats we need to also think about innovation in terms of concepts and technologies. This is why im excited about having our three panelists this morning to discuss those issues and the challenges and opportunities a
Urgent that we look at deterrence in a broader lens. Looking at strategic deterrents of which of course Nuclear Deterrents is a key foundation. The reason we need to look at this more broadly is we are facing new threats. New threats of escalation. New domains that can lead to rapid or inadvertent escalation in competition or conflict with china and russia. New domains such as space, cyber. Adversaries might be able to take more risks and we have Strategic Systems that are vulnerable, for example in space. And that could lead to miscalculation or rapid escalation to Nuclear Weapons use. To deal with these new threats we need to also think about innovation in terms of concepts and technologies. This is why im excited about having our three panelists this morning to discuss those issues and the challenges and opportunities ahead. We will first hear from professor andrew ross who iscurs a professor in the department of International Affairs at texas a m university. He was appointed to Int
My name is jon kulaga. I have the privilege of serving as the president of Indiana Wesleyan University and as the host for this panel discussion. J. Robert oppenheimer. An evolving legacy as one of the most complicated figures in history. Decades may pass before historians come to some consensus about the details of oppenheimers life and what those details mean. Last summer witnessed the release of Christopher Nolans oppenheimer, arguably most elaborate and most costly cinematic exploration of the academic vocation. Just prior to the release of the first trailer for that film in december 2020 to the United States department, energy issued an order vacating. The 1954 Atomic Energy Commission Decision in the matter of j. Robert oppenheimer. The decision that resulted in oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance. Our panelists will grapple the status of oppenheimers legacy in the wake of that order. The release of the film and ultimately turn their attention to the nature, the