CISAC's Siegfried Hecker testifies before Senate Appropriations Committee

Dr. Hecker testified April 30, 2008, about the importance of expanding the cooperative threat reduction programs to counter the growing proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons capability.

Scott Sagan elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

CISAC's Co-Director Scott Sagan, professor of political science, is one of 190 new fellows and 22 foreign honorary members elected this year to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. Sagan and Harvard's Steve Miller jointly direct a new initiative sponsored by the Academy to identify ways to manage the global spread of nuclear energy without a concurrent increase in nuclear weapons proliferation or nuclear terrorism.

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Pavel Podvig receives Szilard Award

The American Physical Society has honored CISAC's Podvig for helping a establish in Moscow "a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia."

CISAC's Hecker analyzes challenges to denuclearizing North Korea

After visiting the Yongbyon nuclear complex in February, CISAC's Co-Director Siegfried Hecker, the former head of Los Alamos National Lab, judges that North Korean officials are working in "good faith" to disable the facilities. But he warns that complete denuclearization presents formidable obstacles.

April 16, 2008
Preparation is key to avoiding 'worst-case outcome,' Chertoff says

April 15, 2008
Sagan wins Gerner teaching award

March 25, 2008
CISAC's Perry to head congressional commission examining nation's strategic weapons posture

Siegfried Hecker's report on North Korea visit to Senate Foreign Relations Committee