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U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control Negotiations—A Short History
An accomplished negotiator puts nuclear arms control in perspective—what it has achieved, where it has failed and what it can do for our future security.
A Research Agenda for Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance
April 2020
A Research Agenda for Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance By: Gregory Falco, Stanford University Martin Eling, University of St.
The U.S. may be close to a peace deal in Afghanistan. Here are 3 big takeaways.
February 2020
Last Friday, the U.S. government announced a two-step peace deal with the insurgent Afghan Taliban.
Cyber Risk Research Impeded by Disciplinary Barriers
November 2019
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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...
The west needs a positive response to China’s technology challenge
August 2019
Silicon Valley is belatedly waking up to the fact that China systematically extracts the most advanced technology from the west, using both legal and nefarious means. Read more at The Financial Times
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
August 2019
Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality.
The Next Director of National Intelligence: A Thankless Job Is Getting Even Harder
August 2019
At the end of July, Dan Coats, the U.S. director of national intelligence (DNI), announced his resignation. When he leaves office on August 15, the U.S.
Drones, Surveillance, and Violence: Theory and Evidence from a US Drone Program
July 2019
Abstract We investigate the impact of the US drone program in Pakistan on insurgent violence.
The Existential Threat From Cyber-enabled Information Warfare
July 2019
Corruption of the information ecosystem is not just a multiplier of two long-acknowledged existential threats to the future of humanity—climate change and nuclear weapons.
What Really Went Wrong at WIPP: An Insider’s View of Two Accidents at the Only US Underground Nuclear Waste Repository
July 2019
Within a 10-day period in February 2014, two accidents happened at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico – the United States’ only underground repository for nuclear waste.
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: Why U.S. Intelligence Agencies Must Adapt or Fail
May 2019
For U.S. intelligence agencies, the twenty-first century began with a shock, when 19 al Qaeda operatives hijacked four planes and perpetrated the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil.
Anomalous behavior of nonequilibrium excitations in UO2
April 2019
Click here to view article Abstract: Ultrafast optical pump-probe studies of uranium dioxide (UO2) under pressure were performed in order to better understand the material's response to ionizing...
International Intervention and the Rule of Law after Civil War: Evidence from Liberia
April 2019
What are the effects of international intervention on the rule of law after civil war?
Constructing the Field of Terrorism
March 2019
Abstract: This chapter reviews the evolution of Martha Crenshaw’s interests in and approaches to researching terrorism, a trajectory that begins in the 1960s and extends to the present.
Cyber negotiation: a cyber risk management approach to defend urban critical infrastructure from cyberattacks
March 2019
Abstract: Technical tools dominate the cyber risk management market. Social cybersecurity tools are severely underutilised in helping organisations defend themselves against cyberattacks.
Whither Non-Alignment? Indian Ocean Zone of Peace and New Delhi’s Selective Alignment with Great Powers during the Cold War, 1964–1979
February 2019
First proposed in 1964 by the Sri Lankan prime minister, the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace [IOZP] entailed eradication of foreign military bases from the Indian Ocean region as well its...
Noncitizen Soldiers: Explaining Foreign Recruitment by Modern State Militaries
January 2019
More than a century after citizen armies became an international norm, nearly two dozen states actively recruit foreigners into their militaries.
Bytes, Bombs, and Spies - The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations
January 2019
Offensive cyber operations have become increasingly important elements of U.S. national security policy.
Probabilistic Performance Assessment vs. the Safety Case Approach
January 2019
The “safety case” approach has been developed to address the issue of evaluating the performance of a geologic repository in the face of the large uncertainty that results for evaluations that...
Evolution and Structure of the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management
December 2018
The final disposal of nuclear waste is at the interface between the technologies of the nuclear fuel cycle that produce the waste and the natural hydrologic and geochemical cycles of geologic...
Editing Biosecurity: Needs and Strategies for Governing Genome Editing
December 2018
This study’s purpose was to highlight the changing safety and security landscape engendered by the emergence of new genome editing technologies, help policy-makers and other stakeholders navigate...
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.
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Stephen P. Luby Senior Fellow Professor, Medicine, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health (by courtesy) 
