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Uneasy Partnerships: China’s Engagement with Japan, the Koreas, and Russia in the Era of Reform
April 2017
Uneasy Partnerships presents the analysis and insights of practitioners and scholars who have shaped and examined China's interactions with key Northeast Asian partners.
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.
What do past nonproliferation failures say about the Iran nuclear agreement?
September 2015
The history of nonproliferation failures in Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea are reviewed in the light of the nuclear agreement with Iran.
Making discoveries in virtual worlds via the Cloud
May 2013
Abstract:Analysts at CISAC, together with colleagues at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, are playing a leading role in deriving new, timely, and value-added information of...
Can North Korea nuclear crisis be resolved?
March 2012
Siegfried Hecker tells security conference in Seoul that he is "optimistic in the long term, but pessimistic in short term that the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula can be resolved.
North Korea in 2011: Countdown to Kim il-Sung's centenary
January 2012
Abstract As the diplomatic standoff in North Korea enters its fourth year, the crisis atmosphere on the Korean peninsula sparked by Pyongyang's military actions in 2010 has eased.
Assessment Paper on Non‐Proliferation
September 2011
This paper, written for a September 2011 seminar hosted by the Geneva Center for Security Policy, analyzes developments since the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Action Plan was adopted by...
Adventures in scientific nuclear diplomacy
July 2011
Siegfried Hecker offers a first-person perspective on the important contributions scientists can make toward improving the safety and security of nuclear materials and reducing the global nuclear...
North Korea's Choice: Bombs Over Electricity
July 2010
Nuclear power and nuclear weapons have a common technological foundation.
Lessons Learned from the North Korean Crises
January 2010
This essay briefly reviews what North Korea’s nuclear capabilities are and shows howtechnical capabilities and political intent were inextricably intertwined in shaping the program.
Proceedings of The Second U.S.-Russian Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference, March 18-20, 2009
September 2009
The second nuclear nonproliferation conference sponsored by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Russian Academy of Sciences was held in Moscow, March 18-20, 2009. The first was held Oct.
Space Cadets - The Korean Peninsula's Rocket Competition
August 2009
CISAC's Lew Franklin and his coauthor, Nick Hansen, contributed the latter half of a two-part article discussing the Korean peninsula's space programme competition.
Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Crisis Behavior and the Bomb
August 2008
This edited volume explores competing perspectives on the impact of nuclear weapons proliferation on the South Asian security environment.
Denuclearizing North Korea
May 2008
After visiting the Yongbyon nuclear complex, former head of Los Alamos National Laboratory Siegfried Hecker judges that North Korean officials are working in “good faith” to disable the facilities....
Nuclear Safeguards: How Far Can Inspectors Go?
March 2007
A look at experience in Iran and North Korea--and the origins of the NPT and safeguards in the 1960s--offers insights into the authority of IAEA nuclear inspectors.
Dangerous Dealings: North Korea's Nuclear Capabilities and the Threat of Export to Iran
March 2007
On Oct. 9, 2006, North Korea conducted a nuclear test and proclaimed itself a world nuclear power.
Proliferation on the Peninsula: Five North Korean Nuclear Crises
September 2006
To reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism, we must prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear weapons or materials.
Ringing In Proliferation: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Network
October 2005
The nuclear nonproliferation regime has come under attack from proliferation determinists, who argue that resolute proliferants connected by decentralized networks can be stopped only through the...
NPT Withdrawal: Time for the Security Council to Step In
May 2005
The nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) provides that a state-party intending to withdraw from the treaty must give the UN Security Council three months' notice of its intention and provide the...
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