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Kazakhstan
Scholarly Publications
"I am a Radioactive Mutant": Emergent Biological Subjectivities at Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
February 2016
The Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan was conceived as an experimental landscape where science, technology, Soviet Cold War militarism, and human biology intersected.
Adventures in scientific nuclear diplomacy
July 2011
Siegfried Hecker offers a first-person perspective on the important contributions scientists can make toward improving the safety and security of nuclear materials and reducing the global nuclear...
Rivalries Between Nuclear Power Projectors: Why the Lines Will Be Drawn Again
May 1996
Nuclear war is generally believed to bring risks of destruction out of proportion to any gain that may be secured by the war, or to any loss that may be averted, except perhaps for the loss of...
Other Publications
Nuclear weapons' future ripe for discussion
December 2011
The supercommittee's failure to reach an agreement on debt reduction will probably result in unexpected reductions of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
No Need to Reset the Reset
September 2011
Russia watchers in the West cannot be surprised that Vladimir Putin is on his way back to the Russian presidency.
Russia's Poison Gases
October 2002
STANFORD, Calif.— More than 100 hostages are dead after Russian authorities used an unidentified gas to incapacitate terrorists holding 750 people in a Moscow theater.
News
Cooperation of U.S., Russian Scientists Helped Avoid Nuclear Catastrophe at Cold War’s End, CISAC Scholar Says
June 2016
During the fall of the Soviet Union, U.S.
Perry's new class: Nuclear weapons remain dominant threat
December 2013
Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry's new winter class will emphasize the continuing threat of nuclear weapons; slated as online course next year.
One of the greatest nuclear nonproliferation stories never told
August 2013
CISAC's Siegfried Hecker has spent nearly two decades working with Russian and Kazakh scientists and engineers to secure the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site where fissile material was vulnerable to...
Events
Dealing with Kazakhstan’s Soviet nuclear legacy
October 15, 2012
When the Soviet Union dissolved at the end of 1991, the independent Republic of Kazakhstan was left with the world’s fourth largest nuclear arsenal and a huge nuclear infrastructure, including lots...
DoD Efforts to Counter WMD
November 16, 2011
After the Cold War, much of the U.S. countering-WMD efforts focused on dismantling the weapons and WMD production systems of the Soviet Union.
From the Manhattan Project to the Cloud: Arms Control in the Information Age
October 27, 2011
Sixty-six years ago, a small group of scientists, policy makers and military leaders embarked upon a highly secretive project to build a nuclear bomb. It would change the world forever.
Projects
Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Safety, and the Transport of Hazardous Material
Under the leadership of CISAC Consulting Professor George Bunn and Fritz Steinhausler (University of Salzburg), a visiting professor at CISAC and IIS, the European Forum and CISAC co-sponsored...
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