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June 7th, 2012

Renewing ties among American and Russian nuclear scientists

CISAC, FSI Stanford News

CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker made his 44th trip to Russia marking the 20th anniversary of America's collaboration with that country's nuclear scientists. He is writing a book about how the partnership has helped reduce the world's nuclear threat. Read more »



December 12th, 2011

Why it's time for a serious conversation about nuclear weapons

CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed

Writing 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 Announcement

The 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, 2008

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



April 30th, 2008

CISAC's Siegfried Hecker testifies before Senate Appropriations Committee

Dr. Hecker testified April 30, 2008, about the importance of expanding the cooperative threat reduction programs to counter the growing proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons capability. +PDF+
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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, 2004

William 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 »




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