Reducing the Danger of Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation

Physics MIT CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 2 lectures

This course, organized as a series of lectures, aims to provide an interdisciplinary view of the history and current climate of nuclear weapons and non-proliferation policy. The first lecture begins the series by discusses nuclear developments in one of the world's most likely nuclear flash points, and the second lecture presents a broad discussion of the dangers of current nuclear weapons policies as well as evaluations of current situations and an outlook for future nuclear weapons reductions.

Syllabus

  1. 1 Lecture 1: South Asia Under the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons
  2. 2 Lecture 2: Reducing the Danger of Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation

Course materials