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November 5th, 2010
Why the India-U.S. relationship is failing to live up to its potential
Op-ed: Foreign Policy on November 5, 2010As President Obama travels to India this week, CISAC Visiting Scholar Anja Manuel explores in Foreign Policy why the economic relationship between the United States and India is failing to live up to its potential. "On the surface, all the elements are in place for an economic love affair between the United States and India," she writes. "India's economy is growing at a very healthy 8 percent clip, and its democratic political system and rule of law, not to mention its widespread English fluency, should make it relatively easy for U.S. companies to sell into India and to invest there." So why do the numbers tell a different story?
May 4th, 2010
Gimme Shelter: The need for a contemporary civil defense program
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on April 28, 2010Of the 15 terrorism and natural disaster scenarios used by DHS for planning purposes, the first is the most feared: Terrorists detonate a 10-kiloton improvised nuclear device at ground level in the National Mall in Washington at 10 a.m. on a weekday, Lawrence Wein writes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Read more »
April 30th, 2010
Five years later, a stronger intelligence community, Tom Fingar argues
Op-ed: Washington Post on April 30, 2010Those noting the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have paid more attention to shortcomings than to what has been achieved and why the achievements are important, Fingar argues in a Washington Post op-ed. Read more »
April 27th, 2010
Xue Litai weighs in on Sino-U.S. relations
Op-ed: China Daily on April 26, 2010Xue, a CISAC research associate, writes about Chinese leader Hu Jintao's visit to the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., and its implications for Sino-U.S. relations in an op-ed published in the China Daily. Read more »
April 14th, 2010
Nuclear review shows bipartisanship
Op-ed: Politico on April 14, 2010The release last week of the Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review brings long overdue attention to the vital issue of U.S. strategic posture. Issues raised in the NPR and START have reinvigorated a crucial national nuclear dialogue that has been missing, William Perry and James Schlesinger write in Politico, the influential web site and newspaper. Read more »
April 12th, 2010
How to build on the START Treaty
Op-ed: New York Times on April 10, 2010This has been a remarkable time for the Obama administration, William Perry and George Shultz write in an op-ed in the New York Times. In addition to issuing a new nuclear strategy and signing the new START treaty, on April 12-13 the President will host a nuclear security summit meeting whose goal is to find ways of gaining control of the loose fissile material around the globe. Read more »
April 5th, 2010
Some Nukes
Op-ed: letters section of The New Yorker on April 5, 2010CISAC Affiliate Leonard Weiss responds to an article titled, 'Some Nukes,' by New Yorker Senior Editor Hendrik Hertzberg. Read more »
March 17th, 2010
The Six-Party Talks: Outlining a true restart
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on March 17, 2010CISAC's Robert Carlin, John Lewis argue in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that the U.S. needs a 'serious reality check' when it comes to dealing with North Korea Read more »
February 10th, 2010
Activating a North Korea policy
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on February 10, 2010It is routine in U.S. foreign policy for a pot not boiling over to be moved to the back burner. Precisely because the North Korean issue is not boiling, however, might offer an all-too-rare chance to make progress with Pyongyang, CISAC's John Lewis and Robert Carlin argue in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Read more »
January 19th, 2010
How to protect our nuclear deterrent
Op-ed: Wall Street Journal on January 19, 2010In their latest op-ed in "The Wall Street Journal," William Perry, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn argue that maintaining confidence in the U.S. nuclear arsenal is necessary as the number of weapons decreases. Read more »
December 16th, 2009
Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety
Op-ed: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on December 14, 2009In this op-ed, CISAC's Richard Rhodes argues that public health, a discipline that organizes science-based systems of surveillance and prevention, has been primarily responsible for controlling the effects of infectious disease. A similar campaign around public safety could help end the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons. Such a push would help create unity in common security and a fundamental transformation in relationships between nations, Rhodes argues. Read more »
October 5th, 2009
Op-Ed: Exchange we can believe in
Op-ed: Washington Post on October 5, 2009J.P. Schnapper-Casteras, a recent CISAC fellow, argues in the Washington Post that despite the potential long-term benefits, only a few dozen Iraqis are able to study in the United States each year. By comparison, during the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union exchanged 50,000 citizens over 30 years, producing more educated students and some of the most pro-Western and pro-democracy Soviet scholars and scientists. 
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July 22nd, 2009
Hillary, India and 'The New York Times'
Op-ed: Forbes on July 21, 2009Sumit Ganguly, a former CISAC fellow currently at CDDRL, criticizes a New York Times editorial on India's nonproliferation efforts in a op-ed in Forbes magazine. Read more »
July 9th, 2009
Philip Taubman assesses Obama's big missile test
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: The New York Times on July 8, 2009Now that President Obama has set a promising arms reduction agenda with President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia, he faces the greater challenge of getting his own government and the American nuclear weapons establishment to support his audacious plan to make deep weapons cuts, Philip Taubman writes in the New York Times. Read more »
June 19th, 2009
Gays in the Military: Let the Evidence Speak
Op-ed: The Washington Post on June 19, 2009John Shalikashvili, senior advisor to the Preventive Defense Project at CISAC, has written an opinion piece about research that shows that openly gay soldiers would not undermine military readiness. Read more »
June 15th, 2009
A threat in every port
Op-ed: The New York Times on June 14, 2009CISAC faculty member Lawrence Wein warns that "while President Obama's future vision of 'a world with no nuclear weapons' is certainly laudable, for the present America still needs to do everything it can to prevent a terrorist from detonating such a bomb on our soil." Read more »
May 29th, 2009
Look at the bright side
Op-ed: USA Today on May 27, 2009Former CISAC fellow Matthew Kroenig explains why there isn't a need to treat the North Korean nuclear test as an existential crisis. Read more »
May 26th, 2009
From Pyongyang to Tehran, with nukes
Op-ed: Foreign Policy on May 26, 2009North Korea's tests are not the scary part. It's the country's collaboration with Iran, CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker argues in Foreign Policy. Read more »
May 10th, 2009
The trouble with zero
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: New York Times on May 10, 2009CISAC's Philip Taubman discusses in a New York Times op-ed why eliminating nuclear weapons completely is a deceptively simple notion; one that in reality would be "wickedly difficult to achieve." Read more »
February 19th, 2009
Learning not to love the bomb
Op-ed: The New York Times on February 19, 2009In a New York Times op-ed, CISAC's Philip Taubman highlights the Obama administration's apparent willingness to resuscitate relations with Russia, including by renewing nuclear arms-reduction talks. But for such goals to be realized, Taubman argues, the White House needs to be prepared to reshape the nuclear era, break free from cold war thinking and better address the threats America faces today. Read more »
January 26th, 2009
Counting the walking wounded
Op-ed: The New York Times on January 26, 2009The American troops in Iraq daily face the risk of death or injury--to themselves or their fellow soldiers--by homemade bombs and suicide attackers. So it is not surprising that post-traumatic stress disorder is a common problem among returning soldiers. But how many, exactly, are affected? CISAC faculty member Lawrence Wein discusses this issue in a New York Times op-ed. Read more »
December 15th, 2008
South Asian security after Mumbai
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on December 15, 2008As evidence emerges that the gunmen who caused the carnage in Mumbai were operatives of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, one question reverberates: Was the Pakistani government responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks? Read more »
December 5th, 2008
Opinion: U.S. should stay out of Pakistan-India dispute over Kashmir
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on December 4, 2008CISAC's Paul Kapur and Sumit Ganguly, a former CISAC visiting fellow, argue that the United States should not intervene in solving Pakistan's dispute with India over Kashmir. Read more »
December 3rd, 2008
Mumbai's Perilous Implications
Op-ed: The World Policy Blog on December 3, 2008CISAC's Paul Kapur and Sumit Ganguly of Indiana University discuss the importance of probing the sources of the violence in Mumbai, and consider the attacks' implications for regional security in South Asia. Read more »
November 21st, 2008
Ends, Ways, and Means in Iraq: 10 Issues for the Obama Administration
Op-ed: World Politics Review on November 17, 2008CISAC Honors Program alumnus Brian Burton and CISAC Predoctoral Fellow John Paul Schnapper-Casteras detail the top 10 issues President-elect Barack Obama must address. Read more »