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March 13th, 2009
As Iran Progresses Toward Nuclear Capability, Russia and U.S. May Come Together, Experts Say
in the news: All-American Patriots on March 2, 2009Dean Wilkening, director of CISAC's science program, was quoted in a AAAS media briefing on possible US-Russia cooperation regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions. Read more »
November 11th, 2008
Barack Obama's missile defense challenge
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on November 11, 2008President-elect Barack Obama's first major foreign policy test will be how to handle the issue of missile defense in Europe, CISAC's Pavel Podvig argues. Read more »
September 15th, 2008
Russia rising: The Georgian crisis & U.S. foreign policy
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Commonweal Magazine on September 12, 2008David 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
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 25, 2008If 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 »
July 22nd, 2008
Book Review: The Gunslinger
CISAC, CDDRL, PGJ Op-ed: Boston ReviewFSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review. "The memoir reads like an international relations primer done in the style of a modern morality tale," he writes. "Imagine Kenneth Waltz's classic Man, the State, and War as written by Ayn Rand." Read more »
April 28th, 2008
Pavel Podvig receives Szilard Award
AnnouncementThe American Physical Society has honored CISAC's Podvig for helping a establish in Moscow "a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia." 
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January 15th, 2008
Toward a Nuclear-Free World
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on January 15, 2008A Wall Street Journal op-ed by former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Senator Sam Nunn and other leading security experts advancing the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and the concrete steps needed to make progress in that direction. Read more »