Event: CNA to Host Book Discussion – Jan. 19

Vice Adm. (Ret) Jerry Miller will discuss findings from his book Stockpile: The Story Behind 10,000 Strategic Nuclear Weapons, January 19, from 10:00 a.m. - noon in the CNA Boardroom.

Miller's book explores the U.S. nuclear weapons buildup during the Cold War and the efforts taken to keep the stockpile under control. In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. By 1960, the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile was about 3500. By the mid-1970s the number had risen to over 10,000. The book highlights the strategies, targeting and attack plans, and arms control measures that were associated with the bomb, and traces policies and problems faced by each U.S. president from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. The book concludes with likely threat scenarios and suggested possible actions.

Miller was a nuclear weapons delivery pilot and a nuclear plans monitor who helped prepare the National Strategic Target List and Single Integrated Operational Plan for waging nuclear war. He is a former U.S. Second Fleet Commander, U.S. Sixth Fleet Commander, and Deputy Director of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff. Following retirement, he participated in arms control meetings with the Soviet government, and has written several books, including Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers: How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation.

For more information, or to register to attend the discussion, contact Loretta Ebner by January 17.