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January 16th, 2009
Bush's legacy: The wasted years
in the news: Nature on January 14, 2009CISAC's Pavel Podvig is quoted in the journal Nature on the legacy of the Bush administration. An accompanying editorial argues that the greatest threat that the Obama administration may face is to help prevent terrorists from building a nuclear device. Read more »
November 18th, 2008
A Foreign Policy Quiz
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 2008A quiz by visiting assistant professor Alex Montgomery that tests readers' knowledge about foreign policy. Read more »
June 15th, 2007
CISAC awards 14 honors certificates in international security studies
CISAC awarded honors certificates in international security studies to 14 undergraduates. Among them were award winners Brian Burton, who received a Firestone Medal for his thesis, "Counterinsurgency Principles and U.S. Military Effectiveness in Iraq," and Sherri Hansen, who received the William J. Perry Award for her thesis, "Explaining the Use of Child Soldiers." Read more »
June 12th, 2007
If a nuclear bomb exploded in your city--CISAC experts advise how government should plan
Op-ed: New York Times on June 12, 2007The possibility of terrorists obtaining and using a nuclear bomb cannot be ignored, write CISAC's William Perry and Michael May and Ashton Carter, at Harvard, who co-directs the Preventive Defense Project with Perry. In "After the bomb," a New York Times op-ed, the three experts on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation outline key considerations for planning an effective response to a terrorist nuclear attack--a response that would preserve lives and democracy. Read more »
March 14th, 2007
CISAC Drell Lecturer shares service members' views of Iraq war, combat readiness
in the news: Stanford Report on March 14, 2007Delivering CISAC's Drell Lecture March 8, New York Times reporter Thom Shanker shared service members' views of the Iraq war and combat readiness. In a talk titled "The Wars on Three Fronts: Iraq, the Pentagon and Main Street," Shanker drew on Pentagon sources and comments from Iraq war veterans as he spoke to an audience of more than 200 people in the Tresidder Oak Lounge. 
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March 1st, 2007
New York Times correspondent to speak on war's 'three fronts'
Thom Shanker, national security and foreign policy correspondent for the New York Times, will give this year's Drell Lecture, titled "The Wars on Three Fronts: Iraq, the Pentagon, and Main Street," Mar. 8 at 4 p.m. in the Oak Lounge at Stanford University's Tresidder Memorial Union. The talk, hosted by CISAC, is free and open to the public. Audio & Video transcripts available transcript available
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May 8th, 2006
CISAC fellow: U.S. civil rights movement shows way to Middle East peace
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on April 23, 2006One century after America's Civil War, the descendants of slaves daily faced the twin terrors of homicide and arson. Yet only 15 years after the rise of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the back of segregation and neo-Confederate violence had been broken. Can Palestinians likewise mount a successful, nonviolent movement toward peaceful co-existence with their former adversaries? CISAC science fellow Jonathan Farley, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, suggests they can. Read more »