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April 13th, 2012
With humiliating failure of North Korea's rocket launch, observers believe nuclear test is next
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsAs 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
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsWith 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
in the newsCISAC 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
April 18th, 2011
Leonard Weiss: The U.S. may have hid Israel's nuclear test
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsCISAC's Leonard Weiss, a former staff director for the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator John Glenn, provides a first-hand account.
April 3rd, 2011
Jan Stupl: Solving the space junk problem
AnnouncementIn a new paper, CISAC's Jan Stupl and NASA scientists describe a laser system designed to prevent collisions between debris objects in space. Collisions between pieces of so-called space junk can produce new fragments, which also stay in orbit, and potentially lead to a chain-reaction that dramatically increases the risk to active satellites.
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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January 12th, 2010
Houston, We Have a Problem
in the news: New York Times on January 10, 2010CISAC's David Holloway has written a review of Wayne Biddle's book, "Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race," in the New York Times. It is a deeply skeptical account of the early life and career of Wernher von Braun, who played a key role in the World War II-era German rocket program. 
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