Beyond the AEGIS Test: Strategic Stability and Emerging Technologies

Background and Overview

In light of the successful AEGIS Ashore test which shot down an ICBM on November 16, 2020 – SCRAP Weapons will host a webinar about the implications of (successful) Ballistic Missile Defence for Strategic Stability (or balance of terror), at both the regional and global levels.

The discussion intends to place this milestone event within the broader context of the significance of emerging technologies for shaping global security and strategic stability.

Speakers:

• Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in Nuclear Policy

• Eva-Nour Repussard, Researcher, SCRAP Weapons

• Eric Gomez, Director, Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute

• Nancy Ehrenberg-Peters, Researcher, SCRAP Weapons

• Andrew Futter, University of Leicester

• Pavel Podvig, Director, Russian Nuclear Forces Project

• Dan Plesch, Director, CISD, SOAS

Registration

This event is free but Zoom registration is required .

Organiser: SCRAP Weapons, CISD

Contact email: scrap.weapons@soas.ac.uk