Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Defense Analysis

The Naval Postgraduate School is a graduate research university offering masters and doctoral degrees in more than 70 fields of study to the U.S. Armed Forces, Department of Defense, civilians and international partners. This project, in collaboration with experts at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, explores the potential nuclear consequences of rapid geopolitical and technological change in Europe and North East Asia. It builds upon a previous project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that assessed the proliferation implications of additive manufacturing (AM or 3D printing). The intended outcomes of this project are to assess the strategic implications of the decline of civilian nuclear energy in Europe and East Asia, and explore how AM might be used for nuclear weapons programs.