Dr Hiroshi Nakatani works at the Air Staff College of Japan Air Self Defence Force in Tokyo. He has a PhD from University of Reading (2019), where he was supervised by Professor Beatrice Heuser, and an MA from University of Birmingham (2011).

The talk examines the formative period of US extended nuclear deterrence over Japan between 1945 and 1970, discussing how the concept of US extended nuclear deterrence over Japan came to emerge and develop in both Japan and the US.