Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers: A Stable Channel in Unstable Times

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Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers: A Stable Channel in Unstable Times

Whatever the future possibilities, the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers have fulfilled a good deal of the promise for which they were established in the 1980s. The question for today is, how can we get them to do more to lower nuclear risks?

By Rose Gottemoeller

Published on Oct 31, 2023

Stanley Center for Peace and Security

About the Author

Rose Gottemoeller

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program

Rose Gottemoeller is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. She also serves as lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ambassador Gottemoeller served as the deputy secretary general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.

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