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October 12th, 2012
1962 or 2012? Intelligence agencies still failing 50 years on
in the news: Foreign Policy on October 10, 2012CISAC Faculty Member Amy Zegart outlines how 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the CIA and other intelligence agencies still operate in an organizational and psychological mindset that favors consensus and consistency. These "invisible pressures" led to intelligence failures in Cuba in 1962 and Iraq in 2002. Read more »
August 3rd, 2012
Why Pakistan's strategy of supporting militant groups is now backfiring
in the news: International Security on July 12, 2012CISAC Affiliate Paul Kapur and Indiana University's Sumit Ganguly explain the complex relationship between militant groups and Pakistani security. They outline why supporting militant groups has worked as a strategy for Pakistan since its founding, but why this strategy has become a trap for weak states.
March 29th, 2012
Video: Google Talk with Taubman, Nunn, Shultz and Perry: Cold War may be over, but threat of nuclear attack persists
in the newsCISAC's consulting professor Philip Taubman hosts conversation with Sam Nunn, George Shultz and William Perry at Google headquarters on his book "The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb" Read more »
February 29th, 2012
Stanford’s Straub, Hecker explain North Korea’s plan to halt nuclear program
CISAC, FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC NewsIn an agreement with Washington, Pyongyang will allow nuclear inspectors into North Korea and also receive much-needed nutritional assistance to the impoverished country. David Straub and Siegfried Hecker discuss Pyongyang’s moratorium on nuclear testing. Read more »
January 3rd, 2012
Philip Taubman's new book examines an attempt to abolish nuclear weapons
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsIn "The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb," Philip Taubman, a former editor and reporter at the New York Times, explores the lives of Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Sam Nunn, William Perry, and Sidney Drell, and their attempt to reduce the nuclear threat. Taubman, a CISAC consulting professor, is also the author of "Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage."
December 12th, 2011
Why it's time for a serious conversation about nuclear weapons
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-edWriting in the San Francisco Chronicle, Benoît Pelopidas says we must review and debunk "three misguided ideas about nuclear weapons."
April 7th, 2011
Charles Perrow: How we can prevent the worst
AnnouncementIn a revised and updated edition of his 2007 book, The Next Catastrophe, CISAC's Charles Perrow examines the dangers we face today and what we must do to confront them. 
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