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Arms Control
Scholarly Publications
The Birth of Nuclear Eternity
This chapter reconnects modes of futures-making with the requirements of democracy by focusing on the naturalization of nuclear weapons and their removal from the realm of democratic choice at a...
Does the Noncombatant Immunity Norm Have Stopping Power? A Debate
October 2020
Our 2015 survey experiment—reported in the 2017 International Security article “Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran”—asked a representative sample of Americans to choose between continuing a ground...
Rethinking Nuclear Arms Control
September 2020
Where is nuclear arms control—negotiated restraints on the deadliest weapons of mass destruction—headed? This 50-year tool of US national security policy is currently under attack.
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
The Biden Nuclear Posture Review: Defense, Offense, and Avoiding Arms Races
January 2022
President Joe Biden’s administration is conducting a missile defense review in parallel with its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). Those reviews will determine whether to adjust the nuclear and missile...
Analysis: N.Korea’s 'hypersonic missile' tests raise military stakes in Asia
January 2022
"These sorts of offense-defence races have been taking place globally for many decades now, and what we consistently see is that offence has the advantage," said Cameron Tracy, a researcher...
Key nuclear treaty review plagued by COVID delays as distrust grows
January 2022
Today’s security environment calls for a renewed commitment to nonproliferation. No country alone can reverse adverse developments in Iran and dissuade others from seeking nuclear arsenals. Effective...
Events
Demystifying China
January 23, 2020
Livestream: Registration is required and will close 24 hours before the event. Click here to register.This event is available only to CISAC faculty, fellows, staff, and honors students. About this...
The Past and Future of Arms Control
December 5, 2019
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/i-Oaa0yiSjA About this Event: In the last 50 years, the United States and Soviet Union/Russia have pursued arms control negotiations and signed numerous treaties...
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
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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