The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Health and the Environment
Scholarly Publications
Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
March 2012
From MIT University Press Abstract: "Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Uranium Africain, une histoire globale
April 2016
This is a 2016 French translation of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (2012), translated by Charlotte Nordmann and part of the series "L'Univers Historique."
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...
News
Human Crap
March 2020
We are turning the world inside-out. Massive mining operations rip into rock, unearthing lithium, coltan and hundreds of other minerals to feed our gargantuan appetite for electronic stuff.
5 Questions: David Relman on Investigating Origin of Coronavirus
June 2021
Microbiologist David Relman discusses the importance of understanding how the coronavirus emerged.
Events
Escaping the 'Half-pipe of Doom:' Is the IPCC Model Transferable to Issues of Safety and Security of Biotechnology?
May 13, 2010
Exponential advances in the life sciences, particularly in the realm of biotechnology, have been held to raise the classic concerns of "dual-use" research: the same technologies that propel...
Actinide Chemistry and the Battlefields of the Cold War
May 18, 2015
Abstract: The Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for much of the second half of the 20th Century.
The changing landscape of infectious diseases and its effects on human health
November 2, 2015
Abstract: Concerns are mounting that changes in climate, land use, species invasions, and connectivity are changing the global landscape of infectious diseases.
Projects
Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources, and International Security
This project involves political scientists, economists, and medical researchers to address the question of whether hunger, poverty, disease and agricultural resource constraints foster civil...
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