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  1. Integrating offensive cyber capabilities: meaning, dilemmas, and assessment
    Max Smeets
    Journal Article
    Across the world, states are establishing military cyber commands or similar units to develop offensive cyber capabilities. One of the key dilemmas faced by these states is whether (and how) to...
  2. Weakest strongman: an interview with Harold Trinkunas
    Journal Article
      Nicolás Maduro may have held on to political power. But the collapse of the state he heads is continuing apace by any measure. We spoke with Harold Trinkunas, of the Brookings Institution and...
  3. Historical Legacies and Leaders’ Worldviews
    Joseph Torigian
    Journal Article
    Political scientists have found that early life experiences powerfully affect future leaders. Drawing on a variety of sources, this article investigates the formative role of Xi Jinping’s youth...
  4. Novel Method of Quantifying Radioactive Cesium-Rich Microparticles (CsMPs) in the Environment from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
    Novel Method of Quantifying Radioactive Cesium-Rich Microparticles (CsMPs) in the Environment from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
    Rodney C. Ewing
    Journal Article
    Highly radioactive cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs) were released from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP) to the surrounding environment at an early stage of the nuclear disaster in...
  5. Political Risk book cover
    Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
    Amy Zegart, Condoleezza Rice
    Book
    From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of...
Commentary
A Silk Road for the Twenty-First Century?
  • Thomas Fingar
Book
Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons
  • Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer
Journal Article
Questions for the presidential candidates on nuclear terrorism, proliferation, weapons policy, and energy
  • Siegfried S. Hecker
SSRN
Working Paper
Attribution of Malicious Cyber Incidents: From Soup to Nuts
  • Herbert Lin
Book
Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges: Education, Energy, Healthcare, Security, and Resilience
  • Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, William B. Rouse, Charles M. Vest
Energy Central
Commentary
How to build NERC CIP compliance: a new course by the SANS Institute
  • Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
5MWe reactor at Yongbyon
Working Paper
North Korean Nuclear Facilities After the Agreed Framework
  • Siegfried S. Hecker, Chaim Braun, Christopher Lawrence, Panos Papadiamantis
Journal Article
China's Security Agenda Transcends the South China Sea
  • John W. Lewis, Xue Litai
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Book
Doomed to Cooperate
  • Siegfried S. Hecker
Pragmatic Engagement
Working Paper
Pragmatic Engagement Amidst Global Uncertainty
  • Amy Zegart, Stephen D. Krasner, Karl Eikenberry, James D. Fearon, Frank Fukuyama, David M. Kennedy, Abraham D. Sofaer
War on the Rocks
Commentary
A Clear-Eyed Focus on our Interests: A guide for the Next President
  • Amy Zegart, Stephen Krasner
American Interest
Journal Article
Pragmatic Engagement: A National Security Strategy for the Next President
  • Amy Zegart, Stephen Krasner
Journal Article
The Pivot before the Pivot: U.S. Strategy to Preserve the Power Balance in Asia
  • Nina Silove
David Holloway
Journal Article
The Soviet Union and the Creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency
  • David Holloway
Uranium Africain, une histoire globale
Book
Uranium Africain, une histoire globale
  • Gabrielle Hecht
Book
The New Great Game: China and South and Central Asia in the Era of Reform
  • Thomas Fingar
Book
Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security After Fukushima (edited volume)
  • Edward D. Blandford, Scott D. Sagan
Book
European Nuclear Nationalism: the UK and France (book chapter)
  • Benoît Pelopidas, Nick Ritchie
Working Paper
An Empirical Analysis of Cyber Security Incidents at a Large Organization
  • Marshall Kuypers, Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, Thomas Maillart
Journal Article
The flawed analogy between nuclear and cyber deterrence
  • Patrick Cirenza
Kuypers policy brief
Policy Brief
Analysis of Pin and TPM for Microsoft Laptops
  • Marshall Kuypers, Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
Cyber Incidents
Working Paper
Documenting Cyber Security Incidents
  • Marshall Kuypers, Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
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Commentary
Risk in Cyber Systems
  • Marshall Kuypers, Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
U.S. Department of Energy
Working Paper
Department of Energy Cyber Security Incidents
  • Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, Marshall Kuypers
Washington Post Monkey Cage
Blog
Why are Syrian Kurds pivoting toward Moscow?
  • Morgan L. Kaplan
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Journal Article
"I am a Radioactive Mutant": Emergent Biological Subjectivities at Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
  • Magdalena Stawkowski
Journal of Development Economics
Journal Article
Conditional Cash Transfers, Civil Conflict, and Insurgent Influence
  • Joseph Felter, Benjamin Crost, Patrick Johnston
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Book
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
  • William J. Perry
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Journal Article
A More Systematic Approach to Biological Risk
  • Megan Palmer, David Relman, Frank Fukuyama
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Commentary
Policy: Reassess New Mexico's nuclear-waste repository
  • Rodney C. Ewing, Cameron Tracy, Megan K. Dustin