The PPNT Summer Boot Camp
The summer workshop-in-residence at UC San Diego, known as the PPNT boot camp, aims to give participants the knowledge and analytic tools to contribute to the debate on future US nuclear policy.
The boot camp features lectures, discussions, debates, and policy simulations. Participants attend talks by distinguished researchers, academics, policy officials, and operational specialists from leading universities, the National Laboratories, international organizations, and government agencies dealing with dealing with nuclear threats, command and control, international safeguards, nonproliferation strategies, and other nuclear issues.
The course is part of long-standing IGCC work on nuclear policy issues.
Support for the 2018 and 2017 boot camps came in part from the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration through the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium headquartered at UC Berkeley.
Course Content
Topics include:
- International safeguards
- Arms control
- Deterrence theory
- History of the nuclear weapons complex
- Nuclear risks and responses
- Global nuclear forces
- US nuclear security policy
- The nuclear nonproliferation regime
How to Apply
The next boot camp recruitment will start in January 2019.
Questions on the application process? Email igcc-communications@ucsd.edu.
Sign up for the IGCC Campus Alert to receive information about next year's program and application deadlines.
Past Boot Camps
July 29–August 7, 2018
La Jolla, California
July 16–25, 2017
La Jolla, California
June 19–29, 2016
La Jolla, California
June 21–July 11, 2015
La Jolla, California
July 6–16, 2014
La Jolla, California
August 4–18, 2013
La Jolla, California
August 5–25, 2012
La Jolla, California
July 31–August 19, 2011
La Jolla, California
July 19–August 6, 2010
La Jolla, California
July 24–August 7, 2009
La Jolla, California
Agenda
Speakers
Participants
July 6–26, 2008
La Jolla, California
July 9–27, 2007
La Jolla, California
July 4–30, 2004
La Jolla, California
July 7–August 2, 2003
La Jolla, California
Participants
Talk by Albert Carnesale
Talk by Herb York
