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NSPC Director Discusses Delicate Nuclear Balance with UVA Today
September 10, 2025“Eighty years of non-use is the product of both good diplomacy and a recognition of the potential consequences. The fearsome power of nuclear weapons causes countries to pause before they use them, but a great deal of work has also gone into nonproliferation and the management of crises to keep them away from the nuclear brink.”
Dr. Phil Potter, founding director of the Frank Batten School’s National Security Policy Center and executive director of UVA’s National Security Data and Policy Institute, sat down with UVA Today last week for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of the world’s delicate nuclear balance. Potter discussed the fracturing Cold War framework for nuclear geopolitics, the incentives pushing some nations to develop weapons of mass destruction, the new dynamics of a world with nine nuclear powers, and much more. Click below to read UVA Today’s full article.
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