Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford University


CISAC Courses


Technology and National Security

Course number(s): MS&E 193/193W/293
Offered Fall quarter in the 2009-2010 academic year

Instructors
Siegfried S. Hecker - Co-Director of CISAC and Professor (Research), Department of Management Science and Engineering; FSI Senior Fellow
William J. Perry - Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (at FSI and Engineering) and Co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at CISAC; FSI Senior Fellow

The interaction of technology and national security policy from the perspective of history to implications for the new security imperative, homeland defense. Key technologies in nuclear and biological weapons, military platforms, and intelligence gathering. Policy issues from the point of view of U.S. and other nations. The impact of terrorist threat. Guest lecturers include key participants in the development of technology and/or policy.

Level
Graduate and undergraduate

Units
3

Department
Department of Management Science and Engineering
School of Engineering