Charles Glaser
Center for Nuclear Security Policy
October 24, 2025 9:00 AM Virtual
The End of MAD?
Technological Innovation and the Future of Nuclear Retaliatory Capabilities
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2025
Register to attend: https://t.co/2BMR4RqIIm
This conference presents a set of papers designed to explore the technological competition between nuclear retaliatory capabilities and damage-limitation capabilities. The project is motivated by recent research that suggests the prospects for meaningful damage limitation are increasing. These papers were published in a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.
9:00 Framing the Project Charles Glaser – SSP/CNSP
9:15 Panel 1
- Emerging Technologies and Challenges to Nuclear Stability
- Steve Fetter – University of Maryland
- Jaganath Sankaran – University of Texas
- Tracking Mobile Missiles
- TD MacDonald – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10:45 Break
11:00 Panel 2
Undersea Nuclear Forces: Survivability of Chinese, Russian, and US SSBNs
Tom Stefanick – Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings
Do Technology Advances Allow Missile Defense To Make Up Ground?
Laura Grego – Union of Concerned Scientists
12:30 Lunch
1:45 Panel 3
- The Survivability of Nuclear Command-and-Control Capabilities
- James Acton – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
China’s Test of the Nuclear Revolution: Technology, Great Power Competition and the Nuclear Balance
Fiona Cunningham – University of Pennsylvania
3:15 Brief Concluding Remarks Charles Glaser