Nuclear Security and Risk

Since its founding as the Center for International Security and Arms Control, CISAC has worked through scholarly research and Track II diplomacy to influence policies that will help reduce the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.

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Events & Presentations

Next Steps for U.S. Nuclear Waste Policy: Implementing the Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission
February 4, 2013 Science Seminar
Per Peterson
How to Engage Iran: Abe Sofaer in conversation with Allen Weiner on Diplomacy and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
January 15, 2013 Seminar
Abraham Sofaer, Allen S. Weiner
Audio transcript available
Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb
January 8, 2013 Seminar
Feroz Khan
Audio transcript available
The Historical Dimensions of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program
December 9, 2012 - December 12, 2012 Conference
David Holloway, Leonard Weiss, Frank Pabian
presentation, conference agenda available
The Threat that Leaves Nothing to Chance: A Narrative Approach to Nuclear War
December 6, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Lynn Eden, Marc J. Ventresca
The Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Lessons Learned and Possible Implications for Enhanced Nuclear Safety and Security
October 29, 2012 Science Seminar
Tatsujiro Suzuki
Thirteen Days -- and Fifty Years Later: What Have We Learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
October 22, 2012 CISAC, FSI Stanford Special Event
David Holloway, Scott D. Sagan, Strobe Talbott, Joe Cirincione
paper, flyer available
Dealing with Kazakhstan’s Soviet nuclear legacy
October 15, 2012 Science Seminar
Siegfried S. Hecker
Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Nuclear Norms, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
October 11, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Scott D. Sagan, Michael Tomz
Global Health Impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident
October 1, 2012 Science Seminar
Mark Jacobson
The Strategic Logic of Nuclear Proliferation
May 24, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Alexandre Debs, Nuno P. Monteiro, Alexander Montgomery
Managing Uncertainties in the Regulation of Nuclear Facilities and Materials
May 21, 2012 Science Seminar
George Apostolakis
Performance of "Reykjavik" and post-performance panel
May 9, 2012 Stanford Ethics and War Series
Charles Ferguson
Performance of "Reykjavik" and post-performance Q&A
May 8, 2012 Stanford Ethics and War Series
Richard Rhodes
Nuclear Reactor Technology Transfers: A Review of Experiences in the Republic of Korea and China
April 18, 2012 Science Seminar
Regis Matzie
The Upcoming April Launch of the North Korean Kwangmyongsong-3 Satellite Using the Controversial Unha-3 Rocket
April 2, 2012 Science Seminar
Lewis Franklin, Nick Hansen, Allison Puccioni
Nunn, Hecker, Taubman: World's Most Pressing Nuclear Challenges
March 23, 2012 Panel Discussion
Siegfried S. Hecker, Sen. Sam Nunn, Philip Taubman
Audio transcript available
Question and Answer Session on the DPRK-U.S. Agreement
March 5, 2012 CISAC, Shorenstein APARC Special Event
Siegfried S. Hecker, John W. Lewis, David Straub
transcript, 3 papers available
"In My Lifetime" and post-film discussion with the director
February 29, 2012 Special Event
Robert Frye
The Renunciation of Nuclear Weapons as a Historical Possibility
February 23, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Benoît Pelopidas, John Downer
Nuclear Non-Proliferation: History and Current Issues
February 13, 2012 Conversation
Leonard Weiss
flyer available
The South African Denuclearization Exemplar: Insights for Nonproliferation
February 13, 2012 Science Seminar
Frank Pabian
Perspectives of Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Risks for External Events
December 12, 2011 Science Seminar
Martin McCann
Radioactive Fallout and the Politics of Risk, 1945-1963
November 17, 2011 Social Science Seminar
Toshihiro Higuchi, John Downer
paper available
Nuclear Fuel Banks: Are They a Reality?
November 14, 2011 Science Seminar
Alan Hanson
Nuclear Power Plant Exporters' Principles of Conduct: Evolution, Status, and Prospects
November 7, 2011 Science Seminar
Ariel Levite
Risk and Game Analyses: From Engineering to the Social Sciences
November 3, 2011 Social Science Seminar
Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
From the Manhattan Project to the Cloud: Arms Control in the Information Age (Drell Lecture)
October 27, 2011 CISAC, FSI Stanford Lecture
Rose Gottemoeller
Audio & Video transcripts available flyer available
The Politics of Nuclear Development: China as a Case Study
October 10, 2011 Science Seminar
Xu Yi-Chong
Standards and Regulations for Deep Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste
June 6, 2011 Workshop
Edward Blandford, Rodney C. Ewing, Bob Budnitz
3 papers, 2 conference agendas available
Nuclear Energy in Growing Economies: Mongolia and North East Asia
May 27, 2009 Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Undraa Agvaanluvsan
End of the World: Sense, Nonsense, and Nuclear War
May 21, 2009 Social Science Seminar
Lynn Eden, Fred Turner
Proliferating from Civilian Nuclear Power
April 15, 2009 Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Chaim Braun
Emerging Superpowers: Influence and Supremacy in the 21st Century
January 26, 2008 Special Event
Michael A. McFaul, William J. Perry, Stephen J. Stedman
Audio transcript available
1969 and All That: A New Look at the Sino-Soviet Nuclear Crisis
May 25, 2006 Social Science Seminar
David Holloway
South Asia and the Nuclear Future
June 4, 2004 - June 5, 2004 Conference
Mitchell B. Reiss, Rakesh Sood, David Sanger, Christopher F. Chyba, Scott D. Sagan, Lynn Eden, Henry S. Rowen
transcript, paper available

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