IGCC Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Training Program now accepting applications

The three-week summer workshop in residence at UC San Diego, colloquially known as the PPNT boot camp, aims to give participants the knowledge and analytic tools to contribute to the debate on future U.S. nuclear policy.

The 2012 IGCC Summer "Boot Camp"

August 5–25, 2012

2012 Brochure

Applications DEADLINE MARCH 15, 2012

Graduate Student and Post-Doc Application (.pdf)

Graduate Student and Post-Doc Application (.docx)

Professional and Faculty Application (.pdf)

Professional and Faculty Application (.docx)

The boot camp features lectures, discussions, debates, policy simulations, and on-site visits to nuclear facilities. Participants attend talks by distinguished researchers, academics, policy officials, and operational specialists from the University of California system and other leading universities, the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and federal government agencies dealing with nuclear policy, threat, detection, and safeguard issues.

Topics addressed typically include:

Past and future of civilian nuclear power
Attribution science and nuclear forensics
Deterrence theory
Counterproliferation strategies
U.S. nuclear policy
Nuclear terrorism
Technical and policy issues in the U.S. nuclear stockpile
Safeguards systems, technologies and issues
Nuclear weapon design and delivery systems
Major power nuclear strategies and doctrines
The demand for nuclear proliferation
U.S. National Nuclear Strategy
The international nonproliferation regime
Nuclear proliferation concerns on the Korean Peninsula, Iran, and the Middle East
U.S. deterrence policy

For more information about the program, please contact Laura Martin, or click here to visit the IGCC website.

Published: Friday, February 03, 2012

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