Scott Sagan

Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute. He also serves as the co-chair of the American Academy of Arts and Science's Global Nuclear Future Initiative.

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Articles by Scott Sagan

Opinion
19 April 2011
Nuclear Weapons

After the Nuclear Posture Review: Obama's disarming influence

Scott Sagan

In his famous address in Prague two years ago this month, President Barack Obama promised to "reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy," and committed to making concrete progress toward "a world without nuclear weapons." His critics derided this nuclear vision as a utopian fantasy, and claimed that US nuclear policy declarations were unlikely to have positive effects on other governments. But a careful analysis suggests otherwise.