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...
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
Fourth Young Nuclear Professionals forum brings together U.S. and Russian scholars in Moscow
November 2018
Persistent nuclear threats and the recent erosion of relations between the United States and Russia paint a gloomy picture for the future of cooperation between nuclear powers.
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.
Events
The INF Treaty’s Demise: What it Means for Arms Control, Europe and U.S.-Russia Relations
October 26, 2018
INF Public Panel DiscussionPresident Trump announced on October 20 that the United States will withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
Is India Shifting to a Nuclear Counterforce Strategy?
October 18, 2018
Abstract: Is India considering developing nuclear counterforce options against Pakistan?
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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