Research Paper: Each student in the course will be required to complete a detailed research paper that examines one of the following topics related to weapons of mass destruction and the themes of the course:
Section 001 11:00am:
1.
- Syrian Chemical
Weapons and their destruction
2.
Blofeld - Evolution
of Ballistic Missile Submarines and their future effectiveness
3.
Rana - The
India/Pakistan Nuclear Balance
4.
Bell - The Israeli
Nuclear Program
5.
Hirasaki - The North
Korean WMD programs, can they be negotiated away?
6.
Blanga - The bad U.S.
intelligence on Saddam’s WMD program, why and what can be done to prevent it
from happening again.
7.
- The South African
nuclear program?
8.
- Soviet inroads in to the Manhattan Project,
how much did that accelerate the Soviet program
9.
- AQ Khan and his
nuclear network
10.
Richard - Shoko
Assahara, Aum Shinrikyo and their WMD program, should we fear/can we deter
future non-state actors.
11.
- Nuclear Winter,
myth or reality?
12.
Sullivan - The
History of the Western Disarmament Movement.
13.
- Cuban Missile
Crisis, how close to Armageddon?
14.
- The Salt I talks,
negotiating strategy and how they relate to current reduction talks.
15.
- The U.S. anthrax
attack in the wake of 9/11.
16.
- Chemical/Bio
Weapons in the Iran/Iraq War
17.
Bogumill - Russian use
of Chemical Weapons in the attack on the Moscow Theater hostage crisis.
18.
Schlicht - DOD
experimentation with Chemical & Bio Weapons on U.S. troops.
19.
- Treaty of Tlatelolco, the South American Nuclear-Free Zone.
20.
- U.S. Soviet
compliance with the Chemical Weapons convention, why is it so hard?
21.
Sackett - The
Biological Weapons Treaties, the science of “weaponization”, what are the
realities?
22.
- The NNPT, history,
effectiveness and future.
23.
Williamson - The
reality of “Loose Nukes” in the wake of the collapse of the USSR (still
relevant).
24.
- The Nunn/Luger
program, a proper way to spend U.S. tax dollars?
25.
- Rocky Flats
Colorado, environmental disaster, cover up & wildlife refuge?
26.
Scates - The future of
WMD, science fiction or some new catastrophic weapon.
27.
Logan - Is
Disarmament unrealistic idealism?
28.
- Coercion and
Foreign policy, a theoretical discussion.
29.
- Near misses,
accidents in the Cold War, could they have led to nuclear war?
30.
Porter - ISIS and Chemical
Weapons
31.
- Five Post-Cold War
Paradigms and their association with WMD
32.
- Is Deterrence
Theory Obsolete?
33.
- Is the
modernization of the US nuclear TRIAD required and why?
34.
- The JCPOA – A good
deal or a bad deal?
35.
- Inupiat
Eskimos, hydrogen bombs and harbor construction in the fifties
36.
Matsen - Cyberattack,
the new weapon of mass destruction
Section 002 3:30pm:
37.
- Syrian Chemical
Weapons and their destruction
38.
- Evolution of Ballistic
Missile Submarines and their future effectiveness
39.
- The India/Pakistan
Nuclear Balance
40.
Raminfar - The
Israeli Nuclear Program
41.
- The North Korean
WMD programs, can they be negotiated away?
42.
Zeisler - The bad
U.S. intelligence on Saddam’s WMD program, why and what can be done to prevent
it from happening again.
43.
MacKenzie - The South
African nuclear program?
44.
- Soviet inroads into the Manhattan Project,
how much did that accelerate the Soviet program
45.
- AQ Khan and his
nuclear network
46.
Spiller - Shoko Assahara,
Aum Shinrikyo and their WMD program, should we fear/can we deter future
non-state actors.
47.
Lencioni - Nuclear
Winter, myth or reality?
48.
- The History of the
Western Disarmament Movement.
49.
Jynes - Cuban Missile
Crisis, how close to Armageddon?
50.
- The Salt I talks,
negotiating strategy and how they relate to current reduction talks.
51.
Illade - The U.S.
anthrax attack in the wake of 9/11.
52.
- Chemical/Bio
Weapons in the Iran/Iraq War
53.
- Russian use of
Chemical Weapons in the attack on the Moscow Theater hostage crisis.
54.
- DOD experimentation
with Chemical & Bio Weapons on U.S. troops.
55.
Stewart - Treaty of Tlatelolco, the South American Nuclear-Free Zone.
56.
- U.S. Soviet
compliance with the Chemical Weapons convention, why is it so hard?
57.
D’Ambrosio - The
Biological Weapons Treaties, the science of “weaponization”, what are the
realities?
58.
- The NNPT, history,
effectiveness and future.
59.
Gilmore - The reality
of “Loose Nukes” in the wake of the collapse of the USSR (still relevant).
60.
- The Nunn/Luger
program, a proper way to spend U.S. tax dollars?
61.
- Rocky Flats
Colorado, environmental disaster, cover up & wildlife refuge?
62.
Shelby - The future
of WMD, science fiction or some new catastrophic weapon.
63.
Zahwa - Is
Disarmament unrealistic idealism?
64.
- Coercion and
Foreign policy, a theoretical discussion.
65.
Kurtz - Near misses,
accidents in the Cold War, could they have led to nuclear war?
66.
Leone - ISIS and
Chemical Weapons
67.
- Five Post-Cold War
Paradigms and their association with WMD
68.
- Is Deterrence
Theory Obsolete?
69.
- Is the modernization
of the US nuclear TRIAD required and why?
70.
- The JCPOA – A good
deal or a bad deal?
71.
- Inupiat
Eskimos, hydrogen bombs and harbor construction in the fifties
72.
Dillard -
Cyberattack, the new weapon of mass destruction