Episode Notes:

Ankit sat down with Ulrich Kuhn, the head of the arms control and emerging technologies program at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also the author of Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende?, a book about Germany’s nuclear weapons policies in the 21st century. Ankit and Ulrich discuss what Germans are thinking about the role of nuclear deterrence as a tool for national security, alternative allies beyond the United States and NATO if the United States reconsiders its commitment to the transatlantic alliance, and much more.