The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Biosecurity
Scholarly Publications
Degradation of Biological Weapons Agents in the Environment: Implications for Terrorism Response
December 2005
We investigate the impact on effective terrorism response of the viability degradation of biological weapons agents in the environment.
Modeling the Incubation Period of Inhalational Anthrax
July 2008
Ever since the pioneering work of Philip Sartwell, the incubation period distribution for infectious diseases is most often modeled using a lognormal distribution.
Keeping National Missile Defense in Perspective
January 2002
The United States is in the midst of its third major debate on nationwide ballistic missile defense-the first culminating in the 1972 ABM Treaty and the second sparked by President Reagan's "Star...
Other Publications
Microbe Warfare Hides the Enemy
August 2001
STANFORD, Calif.- For the past seven years, the United States has been negotiating a verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, hoping to put teeth into the convention's...
Five- and Ten-Year Homeland Security Goals
January 2007
Testimony before the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee on "Five- and Ten-Year Homeland Security Goals." In the afternoon session on 30 January 2007, the...
News
University Scholars Play Prominent Role in Charting Reforms for United Nations
January 2005
A new united nations report recommending the most sweeping reform in the institution's history offers a global vision of collective security for the 21st century that is as committed to development...
Face facts: New York Times op-ed by CISAC's Lawrence Wein
December 2006
"Pandemic influenza is probably the world's most serious near-term public health threat," CISAC's Lawrence M.
Events
The Strategic Aspects of Warning
May 15, 2001
Many CISAC projects involve decision makers who have to respond to a threat quickly in spite of uncertain evidence that it is really there.
Multimedia
Ebola Panel
September 2014
Video of Ebola-Stanford Panel The Ebola epidemic, which could affect hundreds of thousands of West Africans, can only be contained by rebuilding public trust and local health systems decimated by years of neglect, according to a panel convened by...
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