Dr. Ruud van Dijk will join the NPIHP between April and June 2014 as a Wilson Center public policy scholar to conduct work on his project "The 'Euromissile Crisis,' the Dutch, and Changing Perceptions of Nuclear Weapons, 1977-1987.
NPIHP Partner Dr. Ruud van Dijk of the University of Amsterdam will join the Wilson Center as a visting public policy scholar during during spring 2014. His project, "The 'Euromissile Crisis,' the Dutch, and Changing Perceptions of Nuclear Weapons, 1977-1987," revisits the controversy over NATO plans for hte deployment of new intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe with the help of newly available archival materials from several countries. The project will explore the exact nature and provenance of Dutch reservations, the way allied governments responded to them, and the consequences for NATO's nuclear posture in Europe.
The Nuclear Proliferation International History Project is a global network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of international nuclear history through archival documents, oral history interviews, and other empirical sources. Read more
