The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Arms Control
Scholarly Publications
When Science Brought Americans and Russians Together
April 2017
Siegfried Hecker describes the scientific collaboration that took place between Russian and American nuclear weapons laboratories following the end of the Cold War.
A visit to Russia's secret nuclear labs
March 2017
In this essay, Siegfried Hecker describes a 1992 visit to nuclear facilities in the former Soviet Union.
North Korean Nuclear Facilities After the Agreed Framework
July 2016
In January 2004, a delegation from Stanford University led by Prof. John W. Lewis and joined by one of the authors, Siegfried S.
Other Publications
Is the nonproliferation agenda stuck in the Cold War?
October 2013
CISAC affiliate and former postdoctoral fellow, Francesca Giovannini, and SIPRI Arms Control Fellow, Amy J.
My Personal Journey at the Nuclear Brink
June 2013
CISAC Faculty Member and former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry tells the story of how he became a nuclear weapons abolitionist.
Requiem for a Realist: Remembering the nuclear strategist
May 2013
Scott Sagan, in this piece for Foreign Policy, remembers his longtime friend and colleague Kenneth Waltz. Waltz passed away on May 13.
News
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
Normalization by Other Means: The Failed Techno-diplomacy of Light Water Reactor Export in the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
March 17, 2017
Abstract: In 1992, North Korea offered to dismantle its plutonium-production reactors in exchange for more “proliferation-resistant” light water reactors (LWRs) from the West, and this offer...
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at 20: Prospects for Ratification and the Enduring Risks of Nuclear Testing
May 3, 2016
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Projects
Regional Conflict and Cooperation
Regional conflicts present their own set of unique challenges to the international community.
English
Strengthening Security and Stability in South Asia
Through research and track-two diplomacy, CISAC scholars seek to identify policy oriented, cooperative measures aimed at fostering effective dialogue between Pakistan and India in an effort to...
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.
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