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SUMMARY:Peter Clement - Putin's Veiled Threats of Nuclear Weapons Use
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 Abstract\n
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 From the speaker:\n
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 "Since the 
 outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russian 
 President Putin has made a range of veiled 
 nuclear threats. Is he bringing us back to 
 the 1950s-60s, when the US-Soviet nuclear confrontation 
 was the centerpiece of the Cold War? 
 Can his remarks be compared to Khrushchev's 
 famous 'we will bury you' speech? This talk 
 will examine Putin's remarks in light of Russia's 
 increased reliance on nuclear weapons 
 at a time when old arms control treaties and 
 regular nuclear dialogue have lapsed. What does 
 Putin think of nuclear weapons and why has 
 he made them so central to his public presentation 
 of Russian national security?"\n
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 Bio\n
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 https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/peter-clement\n
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 Peter 
 Clement is a Senior Research Scholar/Adjunct 
 Professor at the Saltzman Institute of War 
 and Peace Studies at Columbia University's School 
 of International and Public Affairs. He 
 teaches courses on Contemporary Russian Security 
 Policy and Intelligence and Foreign Policy. 
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 Clement came to Columbia following his 
 retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency 
 (CIA) in 2018. Among his senior CIA positions: 
 Deputy Assistant Director of CIA for Europe 
 and Eurasia (2015-2017); Deputy Director 
 for Intelligence for Analytic Programs (2005-2013); 
 Director of the Office of Russian and 
 Eurasian Analysis and CIA's Russia Issue Manager 
 (1995-2003). Clement served as the President's 
 Daily Brief (PDB) daily briefer for Vice 
 President Dick Cheney, National Security 
 Council (NSC) Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Deputy 
 NSC Adviser Stephen Hadley in 2003-2004. 
 He briefly served at the National Security Council 
 as the Director for Russia and later served 
 as the senior CIA representative to the 
 U.S. Mission to the United Nations. \n
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 Clement 
 has been a member of the Council on Foreign 
 Relations since 2001. He has published some 
 dozen journal articles and book chapters on 
 Soviet and Russian foreign policy, most recently 
 "Putin's Risk Spiral: The Logic of 
 Escalation in an Unraveling War" in Foreign 
 Affairs online, and a forthcoming book chapter 
 assessing Putin's foreign policy since 
 2000. He also is finishing a book about CIA analysts, 
 their work and career trajectories. 
 Clement earned a PhD in Russian history and a 
 master's degree in Modern European history from 
 Michigan State University, and a bachelor's 
 degree in liberal arts from SUNY-Oswego.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact email: events@frib.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://frib.msu.edu/public/policy-lecture/talk-clement\n
LOCATION:Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
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