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US-Russia rift threatens science ties that keep us safe
December 2016
Siegfried Hecker describes Russia's systematic termination of nuclear cooperation with the United States and the harmful consequences that this could have for both countries.
Hecker & Milani: Stop killing Iranian nuclear scientists
January 2015
CISAC's Siegfried Hecker and Abbas Milani note in this article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that for merely working in their field of expertise, Iranian nuclear scientists face perils and...
Iran's Path to Nuclear Peace
January 2014
CISAC and FSI Senior Fellows Siegfried Hecker and Bill Perry write in this OpEd in The New York Times that Iran has little to show for its 50-year pursuit of a nuclear program.
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.
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, U.S. House of Representatives
April 2013
CISAC Affiliate Rodney Ewing, Chairman of the U.S.
Exposure to Low-‐Dose Radiation: We Need Social Discussion for Risk Judgment
February 2012
For a copy of the original article in Japanese, please contact Toshihiro Higuchi at th233@stanford.edu.
Nuclear weapons' future ripe for discussion
December 2011
The supercommittee's failure to reach an agreement on debt reduction will probably result in unexpected reductions of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Fukushima and the Inevitability of Accidents
November 2011
Abstract Governments regulate risky industrial systems such as nuclear power plants in hopes of making them less risky, and a variety of formal and informal warning systems can help society avoid...
Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics
October 2011
Reducing carbon-dioxide emissions is primarily a political problem, rather than a technological one.
Nuclear Zero? Why Not Nuclear Infinity?
July 2011
Source: Wall Street Journal The world would not be safer if the U.S. had no nuclear weapons.
How China views US nuclear policy
May 2011
Article Highlights Although Chinese academics and military officers praised some aspects of the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, they continue to view US nuclear policy with suspicion.
North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Complex: A Report by Siegfried S. Hecker
November 2010
Excerpt: "On November 12, during my most recent visit to the Yongbyon Nuclear Complex with Stanford University colleagues John W.
“Re: Some Nukes”, a letter in response to Hendrik Hertzberg’s article of March 22, 2010
April 2010
Hendrik Hertzberg writes that the end of the Cold War and the coming of global warming have brought about increased support for nuclear power, even among some environmentalists (The Talk of the...
Reframing Nuclear De-Alert: Decreasing the Operational Readiness of U.S. and Russian Arsenals
December 2009
Executive Summary of Report Nearly twenty years after the end of the Cold War, Russia and the United States continue to maintain hundreds of nuclear weapons capable of striking the other side, and...
Consolidating Fissile Materials in Russia's Nuclear Complex
May 2009
Russia has the world’s largest stocks of weapon-usable fissile materials.
Preparing for Sudden Change in North Korea
January 2009
It possesses nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them, and despite some progress, it is by no means clear that the ongoing six-party talks will be able to reveal the full extent of the country...
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