Politics and Security in the Nuclear Age

Dr. Susan Colbourn is the Associate Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS), based at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. A diplomatic and international historian, she is interested in questions of strategy and security in the atomic age. She specializes in the history of the Cold War with a focus on NATO, the politics of European security, and the role of nuclear weapons in international politics and society. Prior to joining the Triangle Institute, she held fellowships at Yale University’s International Security Studies program and at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto. She is the author of Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO, which is the subject of our conversation today.