February 26th, 2008
Negotiating with North Korea: 1992-2007
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsJohn W. Lewis and Robert Carlin, longtime North Korea experts, have just published a paper in CISAC's Policy in Context series, titled, Negotiating with North Korea: 1992-2007. The 50-page paper, which includes texts of major documents, analyzes U.S. bilateral and international multilateral diplomatic efforts to negotiate normal relations and an end to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
February 20th, 2008
Hecker shares findings from North Korea trip
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsNorth Korea has shut down its key nuclear facilities and is discussing how to retrain workers at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker said Feb. 20 following a five-day visit to the country. 
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February 17th, 2008
Group led by Stanford physicist says there's an urgent need for nuclear detectives
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsA group of 12 scientists with extensive nuclear expertise, headed by Stanford physicist Michael May, is urging an international push to improve the science of nuclear forensics. They say there is an urgent need for more nuclear detectives, armed with science PhDs and instilled with the instincts of an investigator. And those detectives will need training, advanced equipment and stronger ties to intelligence agencies, political leaders and law enforcement.
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February 8th, 2008
National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley speaks at CISAC
National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley discussed the challenges of nuclear proliferation in the 21st century during a Feb. 8 speech at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). He praised CISAC's efforts in helping to shape the national debate on global security challenges, while also showing how international cooperation is essential to meeting future threats to peace.
February 6th, 2008
Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg dies at 82
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsJoshua Lederberg, PhD, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for his discovery of how bacteria transfer genes, died Feb. 2 of pneumonia. He was 82. Read more »
February 5th, 2008
BP's chief scientist discusses secure, sustainable energy in Drell Lecture
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementSteven E. Koonin, chief scientist for BP in London, gave an address titled "Energy, Environment, Security: Can We Have It All?" at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, in the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center. The talk, free and open to the public, was this year's Drell Lecture, hosted by Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. 
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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 »
December 17th, 2007
First William J. Perry International Security Fellowship endowed at CISAC
Press ReleaseCISAC has endowed its first William J. Perry International Security Fellowship with $1 million in private donations. The fellowship is one of several visiting positions for pre- and postdoctoral researchers that CISAC plans to establish in honor of Perry, the 19th U.S. secretary of defense and former CISAC co-director. Read more »
November 4th, 2007
Award recognizes CISAC scholar's homeland security research
CISAC faculty member Lawrence M. Wein, the Paul E. Holden Professor of Management Science at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, received the 2007 President's Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The institute president cited Wein's "pioneering research [that] characterizes and improves homeland security operations." Read more »
October 31st, 2007
WHO official joins CISAC as consulting professor
Press ReleaseDavid L. Heymann, assistant director-general for communicable diseases and the director general's representative for polio eradication at the World Health Organization (WHO), has joined CISAC as a consulting professor. Heymann has dedicated much of his career as a medical doctor to investigating and fighting the spread of infectious diseases and mobilizing global efforts to prevent pandemics. Read more »
October 30th, 2007
American Physical Society honors CISAC's Pavel Podvig
The American Physical Society (APS) awarded CISAC research associate Pavel Podvig and Anatoli Diyakov, at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), its 2008 Leo Szilard Lectureship, a recognition of "outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society." The APS specifically cited the two "for establishing a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia." Read more »
October 24th, 2007
Suicide terrorists motivated by strategy, not religion, CISAC expert says
In the News: Stanford Report on October 24, 2007Suicide bombers are not all alike, according to CISAC's Martha Crenshaw, but their motivations generally are strategic rather than religious. Crenshaw cited differences among various terrorists' approaches, during a CISAC seminar on Oct. 18, the day a suicide attack on former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's procession in Karachi caused some 140 deaths and 500 injuries.
October 23rd, 2007
CISAC fellow Huda Ahmed honored for courage in journalism
CISAC fellow Huda Ahmed received a 2007 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation for her work as a reporter in Baghdad during the Iraq war. The award honored Ahmed and five of her former colleagues at the McClatchy news organization's Baghdad bureau for "their dedication and bravery in reporting and their commitment to journalism," Judy Woodruff, IMWF courage awards committee chair, announced. Read more »
October 17th, 2007
CISAC's Perry appointed to Defense Policy Board
William Perry, co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at CISAC, has been appointed to the Defense Policy Board. Perry, who served as the 19th U.S. secretary of defense, is one of five new members Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates appointed to the board, which provides independent advice to the Defense Department's secretary, deputy secretary, and undersecretary for policy. Gates also appointed a new chair, John J. Hamre, who is president and chief executive officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former deputy secretary of defense. 
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October 15th, 2007
Martha Crenshaw, pioneer in terrorism studies, joins CISAC
Martha Crenshaw is a pioneer in terrorism studies, one of a handful of scholars worldwide who started investigating the subject long before Sept. 11, 2001. Crenshaw, who joined CISAC this year as a senior fellow at FSI and a political science professor by courtesy, brings three decades of study to her current agenda of examining distinctions between so-called old and new terrorism, how terrorism ends, and why the United States is the target of terrorism. Read more »
October 8th, 2007
CISAC fellows suggest reforms for color-coded alert system
In a fall 2007 International Security article, CISAC fellow Jacob Shapiro and former fellow Dara Cohen offer ideas for reforming the Homeland Security Alert System (HSAS). The color-coded system does not encourage local officials to take precautions in times of increased terrorism risk, in part because people don't trust the system, the authors write. The Department of Homeland Security should work with state and local governments to develop a "playbook of possible actions for each alert level," Shapiro and Cohen suggest, to build confidence in the system and to encourage people to act on risk levels.
September 27th, 2007
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, longtime CISAC colleague, dies
Physicist Wolfgang "Pief" K. H. Panofsky, who co-created a historic undergraduate course at Stanford that gave rise to CISAC, remained an important contributor to the center's research until his death on Sept. 24. "We have lost a close and revered colleague in Pief Panofksy," said CISAC co-director Scott Sagan. "Without Pief, John Barton, and John Lewis, the center would not have been created when it was, through the course on arms control and international security. And his continued involvement with CISAC over the years enriched our research immeasurably." Read more »
September 6th, 2007
CISAC's George Bunn outlines steps to eliminate nuclear weapons
CISAC's George Bunn and colleague John Rhinelander, in a policy brief issued by the World Security Institute and the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, outline steps the United States would need to take in order to lead an international effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Following on recent proposals to revive the vision presented in an unprecedented dialogue between President Ronald Reagan and Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev at the October 1986 Reykjavik Summit, Bunn and Rhinelander, two former arms control negotiators, discuss how to realize the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.
August 13th, 2007
CISAC's Lewis and Hecker visit North Korea, confirm shutdown of nuclear facilities
Press ReleaseJohn Lewis and Siegfried Hecker, researchers with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, visited the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Aug. 7 to 11, 2007, where they met with North Korean officials and specialists to discuss a number of topics, including the nuclear program, health, and education. 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 »
July 2nd, 2007
Former CISAC fellow wins Carnegie award to study Islamist militancy
In the News: McGill Reporter on May 3, 2007Khalid Medani, a former CISAC visiting professor and fellow, is one of 21 Carnegie Scholars selected to receive a two-year grant beginning this fall. Medani will receive $100,000 to support his study of Islamist militancy and recruitment in Egypt, Sudan, and Somalia. The grant will enable him to conduct further research on the topic he studied as a CISAC visiting professor in 2005-2006. Read more »
June 29th, 2007
Activism is medicine's vital 'fourth dimension,' CISAC scholar tells graduates
In the News: Stanford Report on June 20, 2007Addressing Stanford School of Medicine's 2007 graduates, Herbert Abrams, CISAC member-in-residence, spoke of activism as medicine's "fourth dimension" after patient care, research, and teaching. Abrams, who received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, of which he was founding vice-president, shared examples from his own career.
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June 15th, 2007
CISAC awards 14 honors certificates in international security studies
CISAC awarded honors certificates in international security studies to 14 undergraduates. Among them were award winners Brian Burton, who received a Firestone Medal for his thesis, "Counterinsurgency Principles and U.S. Military Effectiveness in Iraq," and Sherri Hansen, who received the William J. Perry Award for her thesis, "Explaining the Use of Child Soldiers." 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 »
April 19th, 2007
James Fearon talks on Reuters on the battle of Baghdad
CDDRL, CISAC In the NewsJames Fearon, author of "Iraq's Civil War" in the current edition of Foreign Affairs, believes the Baghdad offensive, even if successful, is simply delaying what he sees as the inevitable bloodletting between groups jostling for power that will follow a U.S. troop draw down. "Even if it works in the sense of reducing violence in Baghdad, it is not clear this would put us in a position where we could leave without the violence and chaos returning in a big way," he told Reuters.
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