The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Nuclear Risk
Scholarly Publications
Dissolution of radioactive, cesium-rich microparticles released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in simulated lung fluid, pure-water, and seawater
October 2019
Click here to view article Abstract: To understand the chemical durability of highly radioactive cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs) released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March...
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
August 2019
Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality.
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
Unattainable Conditions for New START Extension?
June 2020
President Donald Trump’s chief arms control envoy last week acknowledged the possibility that the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) could be extended, but he added, “only under...
US nukes in Poland are a truly bad idea
May 2020
On May 15, the U.S. Ambassador in Warsaw, Georgette Mosbacher, suggested relocating U.S. nuclear weapons based in Germany to Poland. One hopes this was just a mistake by a political appointee...
Events
Uncertainty, Risk, and Responsibility: Lessons from Three Technologies
February 18, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/wKXawdBrCEs About this Event: Are we still in the Nuclear Age? Is this the Age of AI? Are we entering the Age of Synthetic Biology?
The Strike on Qassem Soleimani: Implications for Iran, the Middle East and the World
January 6, 2020
Panel discussion with Stanford international affairs experts on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions. Register: Click here to RSVP Livestream: Please click here to join the livestream. About this Event: U...
Security in a Post-Nuclear Age
October 28, 2019
Livestream: This event will not be live-streamed or recorded. Abstract: Seventy-five years after the introduction of nuclear weapons, it is no longer clear that these tools of security remain the...
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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