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December 12th, 2011
Why it's time for a serious conversation about nuclear weapons
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-edWriting in the San Francisco Chronicle, Benoît Pelopidas says we must review and debunk "three misguided ideas about nuclear weapons."
October 28th, 2011
Rose Gottemoeller: "Arms Control in the Information Age"
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementThe technological revolution since the dawn of the nuclear age has had profound implications for national security. On Oct. 27, Rose Gottemoeller, the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, discussed the challenges and opportunities posed by this transformation — and how it will drive the arms control agenda over the next century. Read more »
November 18th, 2008
A Foreign Policy Quiz
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 2008A quiz by visiting assistant professor Alex Montgomery that tests readers' knowledge about foreign policy. Read more »
November 27th, 2006
Award supports CISAC scholar's study of Chernobyl disaster and nuclear decision-making
Sonja Schmid, a CISAC social science research associate and lecturer in Stanford's Program on Science, Technology and Society, has won the Society for the History of Technology's 2006 Brooke Hindle Fellowship. Schmid accepted the $10,000 award at the society's annual conference on Oct. 14. She will use it to support additional research in Russia for a book she is completing on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the Soviet and Russian nuclear power industry. Read more »
February 16th, 2005
Perry urges U.S. leadership in reducing nuclear terror threat
SIIS Senior Fellow William J. Perry warned that the United States is headed toward the "catastrophe" of terrorists using a nuclear bomb to attack an American city, unless the nation takes preventive measures. Speaking at the second annual summit of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the former defense secretary urged U.S. leadership through its nuclear policy and expansion of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Read more »
October 25th, 2004
CISAC faculty discuss U.S. election and foreign policy at packed homecoming forum
in the news: Stanford Report on October 27, 2004William J. Perry, CISAC co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, and SIIS Director Coit D. Blacker participated in a roundtable disucssion of U.S. foreign policy and the presidential candidates that filled the 1,710-seat Memorial Auditorium during Stanford's Reunion Homecoming Weekend. Read more »
May 17th, 2004
CISAC's Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall selected as Carnegie Scholar
FSI Stanford, CISAC Press ReleaseElizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a senior research scholar with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at the Stanford Institute for International Studies and a senior adviser to CISAC's Preventive Defense Project, has been selected as a 2004 Carnegie Scholar. Read more »