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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?
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 Strike on Qassem Soleimani: Implications for Iran, the Middle East and the World
January 6, 2020
Panel discussion with Stanford international affairs experts on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions. Register: Click here to RSVP Livestream: Please click here to join the livestream. About this Event: U...
CANCELED: Labor, Health, and Precarity in the French Nuclear Industry
December 6, 2019
CISAC will be canceling all public events and seminars until at least April 5th due to the ongoing developments associated with COVID-19.------------------------------------------------------------...
Secrecy and Deniability in the Nuclear Realm
December 4, 2019
Livestream: This event will not be live-streamed or recorded. Abstract: State nuclear enterprises are shrouded in secrecy. This fact alone makes nuclear security scholarship difficult.
The Dilemma of Nuclear Insecurity and Limits of Law
November 27, 2019
This event is co-sponsored by the Program in History and Philosophy of Science; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; and Stanford Center for Law and History. Livestream: This event will not...
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...
Molten-Salt and Salt-Cooled Nuclear Reactors: The Opportunities and Challenges Faced in Providing a Global Solution to Clean Energy
October 3, 2019
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/8JDHuY0HMCM /*-->*/ Abstract: The motivation to develop nuclear energy waned in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Rethinking U.S. Nuclear Doctrine: The Rule of Law and the Role of Strategy
September 25, 2019
Abstract: In 2013, the Obama Administration’s “Nuclear Employment Strategy” guidance announced that all war plans and operations would be “consistent with the fundamental principles of the Law of...
US National Security in an Era of Great Power Competition and Technological Disruption
August 5, 2019
The world is experiencing an unprecedented period of geopolitical change and technological disruption. How should we rethink U.S.
Maximizing Leverage: China’s Strategic Force Posture Choices in the Information Age
March 11, 2019
Abstract: How do nuclear-armed states coerce their adversaries in wars with limited aims without using nuclear weapons?
Jason Rezaian in Conversation with Brett McGurk
February 20, 2019
*This event is co-sponsored with the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies. Jason Rezaian discusses his new book, Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison, with Brett McGurk,...
The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review
December 14, 2018
This seminar will provide analysis and implications of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review from the perspectives of three people who spent a significant portion of their careers working on the nuclear...
Nuclear Disarmament Verification via Resonant Phenomena
December 14, 2018
Click here to view paper Abstract: Nuclear disarmament treaties are not sufficient in and of themselves to neutralize the existential threat of the nuclear weapons.
Obama’s Prague Agenda: Success and Frustration
December 14, 2018
Abstract: Steve Fetter worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the first three and last two years of the Obama administration.
The Stopping Power of Norms
December 14, 2018
Abstract: Sagan and Valentino's path-breaking survey of public opinion American attitudes towards the laws of war found Americans are relatively insensitive to international norms and taboos...
The INF Treaty’s Demise: What it Means for Arms Control, Europe and U.S.-Russia Relations
October 26, 2018
INF Public Panel DiscussionPresident Trump announced on October 20 that the United States will withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
Law as Discursive Resource: The Politics of the Nuclear/Non-Nuclear Distinction in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
September 19, 2018
Abstract: The purpose and force of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty hinges on a legal distinction between "nuclear weapons states" and "non-nuclear weapons states." But rather than being a self...
"Our theoreticians were armed with McNamara's arguments." Reflections on Soviet military strategy in the 1960s and 1970s.
March 3, 2018
Abstract: The quotation in the title is taken from the memoirs of Boris Chertok, a leading Soviet missile designer. In my talk I will examine significant shifts in Soviet thinking about nuclear...
A 21st century Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 5, 2018
Abstract: Founded in 1945 by Manhattan Project scientists who “could not remain aloof to the consequences of their work,” the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists aimed to chronicle the dawn of the...
Reset of U.S. nuclear waste management strategy and policy
January 22, 2018
This talk is co-sponsored by the Precourt Institute for Energy and will take place in the Engineering Quad (see address above) from 4:30 - 5:20 PM Abstract: The U.S.
Parallel power play: building nuclear cooperation in Argentina and Brazil
December 19, 2017
Abstract: In the fifty years following World War II, Argentina and Brazil constructed advanced nuclear energy programs that far outpaced those of other countries in Latin America.
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