The Center brings distinguished visitors to Yale to remain in residence from two weeks to one year, depending on the project and circumstances. Visitors have an office at the Center, allowing them to utilize the resources available there in addition to making full use of the University’s ample resources. Visitors are encouraged to become active members of the Yale community and to interact with faculty, students and other scholars in residence.

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, 2005
Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell is the Center’s Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the year 2005. He is one of the most perceptive writers of this day on issues of international peace and security.

During his Fellowship with the YCSG he will write a book that presents the current threat of nuclear proliferation and terrorist use of nuclear weapons in the larger context of the development of nuclear weaponry and strategy since their beginning in 1945, and will make suggestions for future policy. The essay will analyze the current war on terror in the light of the larger and more enduring dilemmas of the nuclear age – the evolution of the nuclear "balance of terror," the quest for nuclear arms control and disarmament, the long arc of proliferation. Other weapons of mass destruction will also be discussed.

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