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Nuclear policy
Scholarly Publications
Socio-technical multi-criteria evaluation of long-term spent nuclear fuel management strategies: A framework and method
In the absence of a federal geologic repository or consolidated, interim storage in the United States, commercial spent fuel will remain stranded at some 75 sites across the country. Currently, these...
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...
Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–1974)
This article presents the first reassessment of the strategic rationality and credibility of French nuclear weapons policy before 1974.
Other Publications
Donald Trump Could Lose the Election by Authorizing a New Nuclear Weapons Test
June 2020
Polls in the United States and nine allied countries in Europe and Asia show that public support for a nuclear test is very low.
Reset of America’s Nuclear Waste Management Strategy and Policies
December 2018
The U.S. government has worked for decades and spent tens of billions of dollars in search of a permanent resting place for the Nation’s nuclear waste.
Atomic Homefront: a film about struggling to live with Manhattan Project radioactive waste
June 2018
Abstract: This commentary reviews and discusses HBO’s new documentary, Atomic Homefront, which shows how communities are still struggling to live with radiation from radioactive waste generated...
News
The Standstill Conundrum: The Advent of Second-Strike Vulnerability and Options to Address It
October 2021
Emerging and disruptive technologies spell an uncertain future for second-strike retaliatory forces. New sensors and big data analysis may render mobile missiles and submarines vulnerable to...
“The Courtroom of World Opinion”: Bringing the International Audience into Nuclear Crises
October 2021
What role does the international audience play in nuclear crises? Scholars of nuclear crises and deterrence have treated nuclear crises as dyadic interactions between two sides. However, states do...
The North Korean Nuclear Question Revisited: Facts, Myths and Uncertainties
September 2021
Facts are difficult to come by, myths are deeply ingrained, and uncertainties lurk everywhere — that, in short, is the nature of North Korea’s nuclear program.
Events
A Critical Analysis Of The Nuclear Waste Management Consequences For Small Modular Reactors
May 27, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/M7DEG62NsVQ About the Event: In recent years, small modular reactors (SMRs, i.e.
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race And Presidential Power From Truman To Trump
May 5, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/wV3Jvqri5Ds About the Event: Throughout America’s atomic history, the president has...
The Tragedy of American Nuclear Policy
February 7, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/YQU4cuywdK8 About this Event: What sort of narrative defines the American experience with nuclear weapons?
Projects
Multimedia
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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