July 18th, 2011

Siegfried Hecker: How scientists can contribute to nuclear security

Writing in Physics Today, Siegfried Hecker gives a firsthand perspective on the role scientists can play in reducing nuclear danger.

• » Adventures in scientific nuclear diplomacy

June 24th, 2011

Pavel Podvig: A new paper examines Russia's nuclear security policy

As Russia and the United States reduce their nuclear arsenals, their relationship has undergone a complex transformation toward cooperation mixed with suspicion and rivalry, writes Pavel Podvig in a recently published paper. "The focus of Russia’s nuclear policy, however, has remained essentially unchanged."

• » Russia's Nuclear Forces: Between Disarmament and Modernization

June 15th, 2011

Michael McFaul: An interview with the president's top Russia adviser

In an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, President Obama's top Russia adviser, Michael McFaul, says the U.S. reset policy means engaging "with the Russian government on issues of national security" as well as democracy and human rights. McFaul is the former deputy director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Read more »

March 14th, 2011

Scott D. Sagan: What the world thinks of Obama's nuclear policy

In a special issue of The Nonproliferation Review, edited by CISAC's Scott Sagan and Harvard's Jane Vaynman, 13 prominent researchers from around the world examined foreign governments’ policy responses to the president's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, the landmark document published last April. Read more »

March 7th, 2011

William J. Perry: Why we need a new deterrence strategy

Nations should move toward a strategy that does "not rely primarily on nuclear weapons or nuclear threats to maintain international peace and security," write CISAC's William J. Perry, George P. Shultz, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Read more »

January 24th, 2011

Historian Edith Sheffer discusses the barrier between East and West Germany

Listen to Stanford historian Edith Sheffer's seminar about what truly divided Germany. Her talk was co-sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREEES), the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), The Europe Center and the German Studies department.

• » Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
  

January 6th, 2011

Pavel Podvig: Offense and defense after new START

"New START is the last 'traditional' arms control agreement in that it exclusively deals with the two largest nuclear weapons states and their strategic nuclear weapons," writes CISAC affiliate and former research associate Pavel Podvig in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. "Further steps toward nuclear disarmament will require dealing with a range of different issues, and difficult issues in their own right -- from tactical nuclear weapons and conventional strategic launchers to nuclear warheads in storage and the arsenals in other nuclear weapon states. Success in dealing with these matters will depend on whether the United States and Russia find a way around a problem that will quite likely dominate the debate: missile defense."

• » Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Offense and defense after new START"