Kissinger Summer Academy 2024

The Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University offers exceptional undergraduates and recent graduates a week-long seminar that investigates the role of nuclear weapons in American grand strategy. The seminar revisited debates over nuclear strategy during the Cold War, considered how U.S. policymakers have addressed challenges such as non-proliferation and rogue states, and explored the role that nuclear weapons will have in shaping American competitions with Russia and China today. It provided Kissinger Summer Fellows with an understanding of how technology and strategy have shaped the nuclear age and examines the choices that American leaders must make with respect to nuclear weapons in a new era of geopolitical rivalry and profound technological innovation. The course provided an emerging generation of thought-leaders and policymakers with the tools to understand our nuclear past and shape our nuclear future.

The 2024 Kissinger Summer Academy took place from July 8 to July 12, 2024. More information about the course can be found here.