June 18th, 2012

Forrest warns of potential blow to American scientific exceptionalism

Next year's proposed cuts in federal funding for scientific research and development could be as high as 8 percent, seriously impacting research in agriculture, energy and medicine. CISAC Postdoctoral Fellow Robert Forrest outlines how cuts would "profoundly inhibit innovation and deal an astonishing blow to American exceptionalism."

• » Huffington Post: Congress Could Deal Death Blow to American Scientific Exceptionalism

June 12th, 2012

Intel VP illustrates delicate balance between IT security and usability

CISAC's Science Seminar series closed on June 11 with a talk by Malcolm Harkins, Vice President, Information Technology Group and Chief Information Security Officer at Intel Corporation. Harkins outlined benefits and drawbacks of information security strategies and discussed Intel's innovative strategy, "protect to enable." Audio is available online. Read more »

April 13th, 2012

With humiliating failure of North Korea's rocket launch, observers believe nuclear test is next

As North Korea celebrates 100th birthday anniversary of its revered founder Kim Il Sung amid the humiliating failure of its attempt to launch a satellite into orbit, CISAC experts believe a third underground nuclear test could be next in North's toolbox of provocation. Read more »

April 11th, 2012

Interactive Timeline of North Korea Satellite Launch

With North Korea's unsuccessful launch of a rocket-mounted satellite, its neighbors as well as the U.S. and its allies worry an underground nuclear test is next. This interactive timeline walks you through the tensions on the Korean Peninsula since the death of revered founder Kim Il Sung in 1994.

• » Q&A: Experts believe nuclear test to follow failed launch
• » Interactive Timeline of North Korea Satellite Launch
• » Nick Hansen in Foreign Policy: Time to worry about the next, improved missile
• » Lewis Franklin tells AP: Nuclear test could be this spring

March 22nd, 2012

Global Security Summit overshadowed by North Korea talk of satellite launch

CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker tells Science Magazine: When dealing with North Korea, be patient. "We have to convince them that their nuclear weapons are a liability."

• » Nunn, Hecker, Taubman: World's Most Pressing Nuclear Challenges
  
• » Science Magazine: North Korea Conundrum Overshadows Nuclear Summit

October 11th, 2011

Co-Director honored for his contributions to reducing nuclear dangers

Congratulations to CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker for winning the 2012 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society. The selection committee cited "his leadership in developing international science and technology cooperation in areas critical to global security resulting in real reductions in the dangers of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism."

April 18th, 2011

Leonard Weiss: The U.S. may have hid Israel's nuclear test

CISAC's Leonard Weiss, a former staff director for the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator John Glenn, provides a first-hand account.

• » Israel’s 1979 Nuclear Test and the U.S. Cover-Up