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The following is a collection of commentary about members (current or former) of CISAC found on various external, unaffiliated websites via an automated process:

October 14, 2011

Presidents Obama, Lee Face 'Bad or Worse Options' Over N. Korea Negotiations

Mention of Robert Carlin via PBS NewsHour

We asked Stanford University visiting scholar Robert Carlin, who spent decades at the State Department and the CIA, where things stand now. Read more »


October 12, 2011

VIDEO: US Strategic Nuclear Policy: A Video History, 1945-2004

Mention of David Holloway via Center for Research on Globalization

Sandia Labs historical video documents history of U.S. strategic nuclear policy. [...] Interviewed were university researchers including Stanford University professors Lynn Eden, Scott Sagan, and David Holloway, University of Pittsburgh professor Janne Nolan, University of Wisconsin professor Paul Boyer, and the late ... Read more »


VIDEO: US Strategic Nuclear Policy: A Video History, 1945-2004

Mention of Lynn Eden via Center for Research on Globalization

Sandia Labs historical video documents history of U.S. strategic nuclear policy. [...] Interviewed were university researchers including Stanford University professors Lynn Eden, Scott Sagan, and David Holloway, University of Pittsburgh professor Janne Nolan, University of Wisconsin professor Paul Boyer, and the late ... Read more »


VIDEO: US Strategic Nuclear Policy: A Video History, 1945-2004

Mention of Scott Sagan via Center for Research on Globalization

Sandia Labs historical video documents history of U.S. strategic nuclear policy. [...] Interviewed were university researchers including Stanford University professors Lynn Eden, Scott Sagan, and David Holloway, University of Pittsburgh professor Janne Nolan, University of Wisconsin professor Paul Boyer, and the late ... Read more »


September 26, 2011

Three Books authors discuss moral dilemma of war

Mention of Scott Sagan via The Stanford Daily

After a week of orientation activities, Stanford freshmen took on this year’s topic, “ethics of war,” Sunday afternoon at the annual Three Books panel discussion. Scott Sagan, political science professor and co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), who also moderated the discussion in Memorial Auditorium, made the selections. Read more »


September 10, 2011

Obama ally says torture probe could have prompted CIA 'revolt'

Mention of Jenny Martinez via San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

Jenny Martinez, a Stanford law professor and a former defense lawyer at Guantanamo, said she's also concerned that Obama's reluctance to scrutinize policies of the previous administration has made the government less accountable. To ease any concerns that national security officials have about individual liabilty, she said, ... Read more »


Scientist who visited North Korea nuke sites says Pyongyang may seek to launch 3rd atomic test

Mention of Siegfried Hecker via Washington Post

Siegfried Hecker, who first revealed news of a previously clandestine North Korean uranium enrichment plant last year, says Pyongyang may seek to launch a third atomic test to enable it to develop a small fissile warhead that can be carried by a missile. Read more »


September 7, 2011

Al Qaeda is down, not out

Mention of Amy Zegart via Los Angeles Times

Amy Zegart: "Talk of strategically defeating Al Qaeda is all the rage in the White House these days. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta used the "D-word" in July. President Obama declared in his new counter-terrorism strategy, "We can say with growing confidence… that we have put Al Qaeda on the path to defeat." Compared to the woeful state of the economy, terrorism has become the administration's feel-good story of the year." Read more »


September 6, 2011

9/11 and the makers of history

Mention of Tarak Barkawi via Aljazeera.net

Tarak Barkawi: "After 9/11, the administration of US President George W Bush initiated the era of the global war on terror. For many, this was a misguided response to terror attacks. But before the decade was over, US forces invaded two countries and are now fighting shadow wars in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan ..." Read more »


August 31, 2011

Inspectors check Virginia nuclear plant for earthquake damage

Mention of Edward Blandford via Washington Post

If the shaking did exceed what the plant was designed to withstand, it would mark the first such event at an operating reactor in the United States, said Edward Blandford, a reactor safety expert at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Read more »




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