The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Nuclear Risk
Scholarly Publications
Chronic long-term risk of low-level radiation exposure: Bridging the lay/expert divide.
August 2018
Abstrac: The failure of experts and lay people to understand each other has been fueling conflict around the environmental clean-up of the many sites in the United States that are contaminated by...
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.
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
After Hanoi: APARC and CISAC Experts Discuss the Outcome of the Trump-Kim Summit and the Future of U.S.-DPRK Diplomacy
March 2019
Following the abrupt ending of the highly anticipated second bilateral summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, APARC and CISAC scholars evaluate the...
Pakistani, Indian leaders ‘have different incentives' - Asfandyar Mir
March 2019
Political scientist Asfandyar Mir has studied security affairs in South Asia for years.
Stanford scholars discuss the diplomacy of denuclearization
February 2019
Siegfried S. Hecker, FSI Senior Fellow Emeritus, with Elliot A.
Events
Discussion on the DPRK with Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun
January 28, 2019
UPDATE: This event will be live streamed on our Facebook page.
The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review
December 14, 2018
This seminar will provide analysis and implications of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review from the perspectives of three people who spent a significant portion of their careers working on the nuclear...
Nuclear Disarmament Verification via Resonant Phenomena
December 14, 2018
Click here to view paper Abstract: Nuclear disarmament treaties are not sufficient in and of themselves to neutralize the existential threat of the nuclear weapons.
Projects
Regional Conflict and Cooperation
Regional conflicts present their own set of unique challenges to the international community.
English
Nuclear Risk Reduction
The Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative engages technical and policy experts to reduce nuclear risks by promoting collaboration between the United States and Russia, China and Pakistan.
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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