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April 29th, 2010
William Perry testifies before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
in the newsPerry and James Schlesinger, both former defense secretaries, appeared at a hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 29, 2010, to discuss ratification of the new START Treaty, which was signed April 8 by presidents Obama and Medvedev.
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April 12th, 2010
How to build on the START Treaty
Op-ed: New York Times on April 10, 2010This has been a remarkable time for the Obama administration, William Perry and George Shultz write in an op-ed in the New York Times. In addition to issuing a new nuclear strategy and signing the new START treaty, on April 12-13 the President will host a nuclear security summit meeting whose goal is to find ways of gaining control of the loose fissile material around the globe. Read more »
January 27th, 2010
Preventing Armageddon: Drell Lecture examines the road to nuclear arms elimination
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news: Stanford Report on January 26, 2010The 2010 Drell Lecture brought together two outspoken advocates of nuclear nonproliferation - former Secretary of State George Shultz and theoretical physicist Sidney Drell - in a conversation with former New York Times journalist Philip Taubman on the future of global nuclear disarmament. 
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February 19th, 2009
Learning not to love the bomb
Op-ed: The New York Times on February 19, 2009In a New York Times op-ed, CISAC's Philip Taubman highlights the Obama administration's apparent willingness to resuscitate relations with Russia, including by renewing nuclear arms-reduction talks. But for such goals to be realized, Taubman argues, the White House needs to be prepared to reshape the nuclear era, break free from cold war thinking and better address the threats America faces today. 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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March 25th, 2008
Siegfried Hecker's report on North Korea visit to Senate Foreign Relations Committee
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsSiegfried Hecker's report was presented as part of a formal report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 17, 2008, by Keith Luse, senior staffer to Sen. Richard Lugar.
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 »