The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Nuclear Risk
Scholarly Publications
The unbearable lightness of luck. Three sources of overconfidence in the manageability of nuclear crises
July 2017
Overconfidence in the controllability of nuclear weapons creates danger. The passing of the last elite witness of the most dangerous nuclear crisis, i.e.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: From Pariah and Piñata to Managing Partner
June 2017
This is a chapter in the second edition of The National Security Enterprise, a book edited by Roger Z.
A MOOC With Meaning
May 2017
Under the sponsorship of Stanford University, we designed a massive open online course (MOOC) to raise public consciousness about the past, present, and future dangers of nuclear weapons.
Other Publications
US-Russia rift threatens science ties that keep us safe
December 2016
Siegfried Hecker describes Russia's systematic termination of nuclear cooperation with the United States and the harmful consequences that this could have for both countries.
Hecker & Milani: Stop killing Iranian nuclear scientists
January 2015
CISAC's Siegfried Hecker and Abbas Milani note in this article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that for merely working in their field of expertise, Iranian nuclear scientists face perils and...
Iran's Path to Nuclear Peace
January 2014
CISAC and FSI Senior Fellows Siegfried Hecker and Bill Perry write in this OpEd in The New York Times that Iran has little to show for its 50-year pursuit of a nuclear program.
News
Siegfried Hecker's 'Solution' to North Korean Denuclearization - Interview with SisaIN (Korea)
July 2018
SisaIN: You suggested that the best way for denuclearization is to convert N.
Why did Kim Jong Un blow up his nuclear test site?
May 2018
STANFORD, Calif. — When President Trump abruptly canceled the summit with North Korea last week, it overshadowed the closing of North Korea’s nuclear test site just a few hours before.
Stanford researchers release risk-management roadmap to denuclearization in North Korea
May 2018
Immediate denuclearization of North Korea is unrealistic, said Stanford scholars in an in-depth report released by the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Instead,...
Events
A Comprehensive History of North Korea's Nuclear Program and Lessons Learned
March 26, 2018
NOTE: Seminar room changed to Oksenberg Conference RoomEncina Hall, 3rd floor This is an APARC-CISAC joint event.With all eyes on the upcoming Inter-Korean Summit and the planned Kim-Trump Summit,...
A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg on ‘The Doomsday Machine’
March 19, 2018
- RSVP here - Abstract: Must we, should we, possess a Doomsday Machine? For over half a century there have been two of these in the world: the U.S.
Rethinking the Kargil conflict: What did Pakistan learn from a nuclear crisis?
March 8, 2018
Abstract: In November 1998, ‘mujahideen’ warriors climbed the heights above Kargil in Indian held Kashmir, crossed the Line of Control, and occupied Indian military posts.
Projects
Lab-to-Lab Cooperation
Senior Fellow Siegfried Hecker was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory when the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991.
English
Regional Conflict and Cooperation
Regional conflicts present their own set of unique challenges to the international community.
English
Multimedia
2016 Drell Lecture: William J. Perry - A National Security Walk Around the World
February 2016
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J.
America’s Nuclear Waste – No Solution in Sight
January 2016
America’s nuclear waste is accumulating at over seventy sites in 39 states – but there is no clear way forward for its final disposal. An international cast of experts explains how the U.S.
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