Dr. Todd Sechser

Dr. Todd S. Sechser (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. An expert in nuclear security and foreign policy, his books include Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy and Emerging Technologies and International Stability. Before entering academia, Dr. Sechser worked as a nuclear policy analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he is now a Non-Resident Scholar.

American security guarantees once prevented Germany, Japan, South Korea, and other allies from building nuclear weapons. But this fragile architecture may be unraveling. Dr. Sechser traces how American alliances transformed from vectors of proliferation to bulwarks against it, and why these nonproliferation guardrails may now be facing their greatest test.