The Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) invites you to a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s classic dark comedy, Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, immediately followed by a discussion and Q&A session with “NUKEMAP” creator and historian Prof. Alex Wellerstein, moderated by MTA Senior Research Associate Nickolas Roth.

Pizza and other refreshments will be served! RSVP required.

Location: T-G50 (bottom floor of Taubman Building)

15 Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

United States law vests the power to control the use of nuclear weapons exclusively in the person of the President or his legal successor. The degree to which this power has been located in a single individual has come into question several times in the history of nuclear weapons, including much more recently. In this talk, I will discuss the somewhat convoluted and unintuitive history of how this system was established during the Cold War, the moments at which it has been previously called into question, and discuss some of the policy questions that seem to face us on this matter in the post-Cold War. 

Alex Wellerstein will present a Managing the Atom seminar entitled "'Restricted Data': The Regulation of Nuclear Knowledge in the United States" on Tuesday October 12, 2010 at 9:30am in the Belfer Center library.