February 6th, 2008

Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg dies at 82

Joshua 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 »

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 20th, 2006

CISAC's Hecker speaks on PBS NewsHour about North Korea nuclear test

North Korea said on Monday, Oct. 9, it conducted a successful nuclear weapons test, forcing an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. CISAC visiting professor Siegfried Hecker joined other experts on PBS's NewsHour to discuss the alleged test, proposed responses and implications for the region. Read more »

March 30th, 2006

India deal could be used to promote nuclear nonproliferation, Sagan says

The controversial nuclear agreement proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could be crafted to bolster rather than hinder nuclear nonproliferation efforts, suggested CISAC Director Scott Sagan. Quoted in Daniel Sneider's foreign affairs column in the San Jose Mercury News, Sagan said that if the agreement included cooperation between the two countries in securing both military and civilian nuclear facilities, it could help reduce the chance that nuclear weapons will find their way into terrorists' hands. Read more »

March 27th, 2006

Nuclear intelligence history begs policy questions for CISAC reviewer

Jeffrey T. Richelson's history of American nuclear intelligence, Spying on the Bomb, is timely, writes CISAC's David Holloway, given the faulty intelligence about nuclear weapons that was used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In fact the book could have gone further toward analyzing the relationship between the intelligence community and policy makers, Holloway suggests in this New York Times book review. Read more »

November 29th, 2004

Want to stop the nukes? Make nice

"We've been down this road before: A crisis threatens global security, and the international community is not coming together to deal with it," writes Alan Isenberg in this Los Angeles Times op-ed. He urges the United States to join Europe in crafting a diplomatic approach to the growing nuclear crisis in Iran. Read more »

Needed for Iran: U.S. muscle, European diplomacy

In this International Herald Tribune op-ed, Alan Isenberg suggests that Europe and the United States combine their respective carrot and stick approaches to set firm benchmarks for Iran to comply with international nuclear nonproliferation conventions. Read more »