The Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, in conjunction with the Texas A&M Department of Political Science, welcomed Dr. Mark Bell, an assistant professor from the University of Minnesota, on Sept. 24, 3019. Bell’s lecture, “The Path Dependence of Nuclear Thinking: Grand Strategy, Nuclear Weapons, and the Absence of Evaluation,” discussed a research project he is currently working on. Professor Bell explains the relationship between nuclear weapons and a country’s grand strategy and turns the conventional wisdom upside down.” A full summary of the talk can be read online.