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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. 
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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 »
November 11th, 2008
Barack Obama's missile defense challenge
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on November 11, 2008President-elect Barack Obama's first major foreign policy test will be how to handle the issue of missile defense in Europe, CISAC's Pavel Podvig argues. Read more »
October 14th, 2008
Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Anthrax...
Op-ed: The New York Times on October 12, 2008Important planning for responding to a future anthrax attack has quietly been under way since the last attacks seven years ago. A key part of this effort has been figuring out how best to deliver prophylactic antibiotics quickly to the people living in the city that is attacked. Read more »
A silver lining to the U.S.-India nuclear deal
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on October 14, 2008Although much maligned among arms control advocates, the U.S.-India nuclear might actually provide an opportunity to strengthen the NPT. CISAC's Associate Director for Research (acting) Pavel Podvig explains how in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Read more »
September 15th, 2008
Russia rising: The Georgian crisis & U.S. foreign policy
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Commonweal Magazine on September 12, 2008David Holloway reports that the ongoing crisis in Georgia has catapulted relations with Russia to a top place on the foreign-policy agenda. It has presented the United States-and the West more generally with important policy decisions, and it has brought to a head a debate that has been taking place for many years about how to deal with Russia. Read more »
August 26th, 2008
Pavel Podvig: U.S.-Russian relations following Georgia conflict
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 25, 2008If there's a consensus about the confrontation between Russia and Georgia, writes CISAC's Pavel Podvig, it's that the conflict has seriously strained the relationship between Moscow and its Western counterparts--namely, the United States and NATO. Now that the worst of the conflict seems over, it appears that the harshest measures suggested in the first days of the conflict, i.e., expelling Russia from the G-8, won't materialize. Despite all of the disagreements and mistrust, each party seems to understand that severing ties between Russia and the West isn't realistic. Read more »
July 22nd, 2008
Book Review: The Gunslinger
CISAC, CDDRL, PGJ Op-ed: Boston ReviewFSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review. "The memoir reads like an international relations primer done in the style of a modern morality tale," he writes. "Imagine Kenneth Waltz's classic Man, the State, and War as written by Ayn Rand." Read more »
July 2nd, 2008
Q&A: Inside Yongbyon nuclear plant
Op-ed: Al Jazeera on June 27, 2008CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker talks to Al Jazeera about being one of the few outsiders to have visited North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility, what he saw on his visits to the plant, and how likely he thinks it is that North Korea will give up its nuclear program. Read more »
May 19th, 2008
US must fulfill its commitment to diplomacy with North Korea, Lewis writes in Globe
Op-ed: The Boston Globe on May 17, 2008CISAC faculty member John Lewis argues in the Boston Globe that the North Korea diplomatic initiative launched by President Bush in October 2006 will come to naught if the administration fails to follow through on promises it made to encourage Pyongyang to destroy its nuclear weapons programs. Read more »
May 13th, 2008
CISAC's Hecker and Perry discuss North Korea in Washington Post
Op-ed: Washington Post on May 13, 2008Siegfried Hecker and William Perry argue that the Bush administration should not walk away or slow down talks with Pyongyang, instead it should focus on limiting North Korea's nuclear capabilities by concluding the elimination of plutonium production. Read more »
March 24th, 2008
Abrams: Presidency too demanding to not have upper age limit for candidates
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on March 16, 2008Herbert L. Abrams, CISAC member-in-residence and Stanford professor of radiology, emeritus, looks at the issue of a presidential candidate's age and its effect on decision-making. Read more »
January 15th, 2008
Toward a Nuclear-Free World
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on January 15, 2008A Wall Street Journal op-ed by former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Senator Sam Nunn and other leading security experts advancing the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and the concrete steps needed to make progress in that direction. Read more »
August 1st, 2007
Reframing the Nuclear Threat
Op-ed: Encina Columns Summer '07What nuclear threats do we face today? America went to war because its leadership believed Iraq had nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. We are reminded daily of the potential dangers of Iran turning its quest for nuclear energy into a weapons capability. We are locked in a deep struggle to get North Korea to give up its nuclear status demonstrated in last fall's test. Concerns about Russia's nuclear arsenal are resurfacing. And, we are constantly reminded that we must wage America's "war on terror" to avoid the nexus of international terrorism and nuclear weapons. Read more »
June 12th, 2007
If a nuclear bomb exploded in your city--CISAC experts advise how government should plan
Op-ed: New York Times on June 12, 2007The possibility of terrorists obtaining and using a nuclear bomb cannot be ignored, write CISAC's William Perry and Michael May and Ashton Carter, at Harvard, who co-directs the Preventive Defense Project with Perry. In "After the bomb," a New York Times op-ed, the three experts on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation outline key considerations for planning an effective response to a terrorist nuclear attack--a response that would preserve lives and democracy. Read more »