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null Andreas Lutsch presents "Germany in Nuclear NATO - a Reappraisal"

Date: February 25, 2016 to February 25, 2016
Time: 1200 - 1300
Location: Glasgow Hall, Room 322

Was West Germany commiVed to become a nuclear power? This quesXon received great aVenXon and generated considerable controversy - both contemporarily and in scholarship. I will present central elements of a reappraisal of West Germany’s nuclear ambiXons and policy in the late 1950s and early 1960s, drawing on my research at 25 archives in the U.S., the UK, Belgium and Germany. In addiXon, I will connect these historical findings to an analysis of German policy and U.S. extended nuclear deterrence in the 21st century. 

Dr. Andreas Lutsch is a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at CISAC. In August 2015 he received his Doctor of Philosophy in history at the University of Mainz, Germany. His dissertation offers a new interpretation of West Germany’s nuclear policy during the 1960s and 1970s - from the controversy about the Non-Proliferation Treaty since the early 1960s until the agreement on NATO’s dual track decision in 1979. The dissertation is based on printed and edited sources and on multi-archival research in Germany, the U.S., the UK and Belgium, thus making use of recently declassified files. Besides completing the book manuscript, Andreas is engaged in a research project on the historical management of U.S. extended nuclear deterrence regarding NATO Europe. Andreas analyzes whether, why and to what extent mechanisms of nuclear consultation were important as tools of extended deterrence management. A previous research fellow at the University of Mainz, Germany, Andreas is an Assistant Professor (on leave in the academic year 2015-16) at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He organized three workshops for PhD students and postdocs and is affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP).

 

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