Our guest this week is Dr. Kerry Kartchner, nuclear weapons policy expert, former US Department of State representative, and adjunct professor at Utah Valley University’s Center for National Security Studies. 

Listen as Dr. Kartchner recounts his career beginning as an instructor at the Naval postgraduate school, his participation in the implementation of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and his work with the State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. 

How do recent actions by Russia threaten the emergence of more nuclear states? How does the modernization of the US nuclear arsenal support the goal of nonproliferation worldwide? How will ongoing conflicts in Israel and Ukraine affect the evolution of nuclear strategy?  

Learn all this, and more, in this episode of In the Interest of National Security