On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 12:15pm, the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint partnership between UT’s Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and Clements Center for National Security, and the LBJ School’s Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project are pleased to welcome Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, to discuss “Informing Nonproliferation with Intelligence: Three Problems”. 

Conventional Washington wisdom has it that timely intelligence is critical to taking sound nonproliferation policy action but that it is often lacking. Outside of the Beltway, most academics think that their instruction and analysis would enhance US nonproliferation policy. In both cases, preventing nuclear proliferation and use is seen as one of our nation’s top security priorities. Looking at the history of specific key nonproliferation cases, however, suggests that each of these views is not quite right. How have policymakers and intelligence officials collaborated in the past to prevent nuclear proliferation? Has timely intelligence been the key missing ingredient? Does the academic treatment of these questions focus enough on what officials are willing to divulge? How should future nuclear proliferation threats be viewed? To get at the answers, come join us to discuss the key findings of a two-year research project conducted by The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), “Speaking Truth to Nonproliferation,” by Henry Sokolski, NPEC’s Executive Director.

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