Raising the Nuclear IQ for a New Nuclear Age

In 2023, the Centre for International Security received an endowment from the US-based Stanton Foundation, firmly establishing the Centre as a leading hub for nuclear security research in Europe. The endowment strengthens the Centre’s work on European nuclear strategy and arms control across its three core pillars: research, teaching, and outreach. It also creates, together with our project partner the Munich Security Conference, a platform that brings political and military decision-makers, as well as the broader public, into critical discussions on nuclear security. The Stanton Foundation's confidence in the Centre, demonstrated by its support since 2018, marks a major step forward in amplifying Europe’s voice in the global nuclear security debate.

In particular, the endowment enables the Centre to undertake research in the following three research areas:

• Research Area I: European nuclear strategy and doctrine in an age of great power competition
• Research Area II: European societal interests and needs for extended deterrence and assurance
• Research Area III: Managing assurance and extended deterrence in NATO in the post-2022 nuclear environment

In addition, the Centre provides Hertie School Master’s students courses on European nuclear security and nuclear security policy. The Centre also hosts a PhD student undertaking doctoral research at the Hertie School in the area of nuclear security. 

About the Stanton Foundation:

The Stanton Foundation is a US-based private foundation established by Frank Stanton, a long-time president of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and an adviser on nuclear issues to President Eisenhower in the 1950s. One of its key areas of focus is supporting policy research in international security with a special emphasis on nuclear security.

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