Nick Kodama

Nick Kodama is a PhD candidate in Government at Georgetown University and a Stanton Nuclear Security Research Fellow at the Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His research areas include deterrence theory, nuclear strategy, and nonproliferation with a regional focus on East Asia. He is writing a dissertation on how policymakers think about deterrence and how the strategies they pursue to threaten or deter limited nuclear use shape nuclear postures.

He has an MA in Asian Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a BA in International and Global Studies from Brandeis University.