November 18th, 2008

A Foreign Policy Quiz

A quiz by visiting assistant professor Alex Montgomery that tests readers' knowledge about foreign policy. Read more »

October 31st, 2008

AIG Lobbied for India Nuke Deal (Really!)

Len Weiss, a CISAC affiliate, is quoted in this article about insurance giant AIG ensuring that Congress knew its stance on U.S.-India nuclear relations--on the brink of bankruptcy and facing a government takeover. Read more »

September 15th, 2008

Russia rising: The Georgian crisis & U.S. foreign policy

David 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

If 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 »

August 28th, 2006

Iraq war has Bush Doctrine in tatters

Analysts across the political spectrum say the Bush Doctrine--preventive war, choking the roots of terrorism by planting democracy, and brandishing power to force others into line--has failed. Bush's lofty goals, shared even by his critics, have been set back, perhaps decades, by the Iraq occupation. CISAC's David Holloway is quoted in this news analysis by Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read more »

November 9th, 2005

Nuclear threats examined by CISAC experts on NPR talk show

On NPR's Talk of the Nation, host Neal Conan talked with Siegfried Hecker, CISAC visiting professor, and Richard Rhodes, CISAC affiliate, about nuclear threats past and present. The program was recorded before an audience of experts at the Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference in Washington, D.C. Read more »

March 14th, 2005

Study finds U.S. programs help promote peaceful work for Russian scientists

"America's attempt to find peaceful employment for the Soviet Union's weapons scientists seems to be working," reports The Economist, citing an International Security article due out this spring by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher and former CISAC Fellow Deborah Yarsike Ball. U.S.-funded programs seem to help discourage Russian scientists from taking their expertise to countries that seek to develop illicit chemical, biological or nuclear weapons programs, according to a recent survey of scientists in the largest of the former Soviet republics. Ball presented the survey findings at CISAC's science seminar on Feb. 15. Read more »