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Putin and his generals: Explaining change in Russian nuclear strategy
December 8, 2017
Abstract: What are the causes of change in Russian declaratory nuclear strategy?
A new perspective on nuclear waste management: facing the technical and social challenges of a complex science-policy issue
August 31, 2017
Abstract: Continuing social concerns over nuclear energy technologies still limit the application of long-term solutions to nuclear waste management in most countries.
Spent Nuclear Fuel in South Korea and China
April 5, 2017
Abstract: Relative to the struggles Western nuclear powered countries have experienced in the recent past, South Korea and China have had notable success building up nuclear power at an impressive...
Japan's shift in the nuclear debate: a change in its security identity
March 20, 2017
Abstract: Throughout the Cold War, Japanese leaders and policymakers have generally been careful to reflect the public’s firm opposition to anti-nuclear sentiment.
Normalization by Other Means: The Failed Techno-diplomacy of Light Water Reactor Export in the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
March 17, 2017
Abstract: In 1992, North Korea offered to dismantle its plutonium-production reactors in exchange for more “proliferation-resistant” light water reactors (LWRs) from the West, and this offer...
Networks and Nukes: A Multiplex Model of Nuclear Proliferation
January 26, 2017
Abstract: While impressive strides have been made in detecting physical evidence of nuclear weapons production, there is no consensus on how international relationships combine to motivate or deter...
The Limits of Presidential Power or Calculated Ambiguity? The Case of Nuclear No-First Use, Sole Purpose, and Negative Security Assurances
November 17, 2016
Abstract: In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama had a very specific agenda to revise and update the U.S. nuclear posture.
Deterrence without Bombs
September 15, 2016
Abstract: Deterrence is one of the most central concepts in international relations scholarship.
The dilemma of multiple choices: Comparing the technical suitability of sites for a deep-mined, geologic repository for high-activity radioactive waste
August 31, 2016
Abstract: All nations that have selected a strategy for the long-term management of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel have opted for disposal in a deep-mined, geologic repository....
Reset of U.S. Nuclear Waste Management Strategy and Policy Meeting #5: Regulations, Risk and Safety
June 8, 2016
RESET of U.S.
CISAC Honors Students Prize-Winning Presentations
May 18, 2016
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The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at 20: Prospects for Ratification and the Enduring Risks of Nuclear Testing
May 3, 2016
- Please note special start time: 2:55 rather than 3:30 PM; please RSVP above - The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at 20:Prospects for Ratification and the Enduring Risks of Nuclear Testing...
Knowledge Infrastructures for a Changing Planet: the past, present, and future of relations between climate science and nuclear weapons research
May 2, 2016
Abstract: Nuclear war and climate change present the two most serious threats to global security since World War II.
‘Expensive, prone to obsolescence, and lacking in credibility as a deterrent’: US attitudes to the UK’s independent nuclear capabilities, and McNamara’s Ann Arbor speech of June 1962 revisited
April 5, 2016
Abstract: On 13 February 2016, in a widely-reported interview for the BBC, Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defense, made clear that the US Government supported the maintenance and renewal of...
Additive Manufacturing & High-Performance Computing: Disruptive Latent Technologies Impacting Our National Security
March 25, 2016
Abstract: Dr. Goodwin’s presentation will discuss some of the rapid developments in additive manufacturing technology (3-D printing with metals and other materials) and their relationship to high...
Rival Hierarchies: Lessons from the Cold War for Today’s Geopolitics
March 23, 2016
Abstract: To what extent will multipolar institution building undermine the US-led international order?
Reset of U.S. Nuclear Waste Management Strategy and Policy Meeting 3: Consent-Based Siting
March 9, 2016
Reset of U.S.
Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: Real American Attitudes about Dropping the Bomb
March 3, 2016
Abstract: Numerous polls show that U.S. public approval of Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has declined significantly since 1945.
Irreversible nuclear disarmament through geological disposal of plutonium
February 29, 2016
Abstract: The large U.S. and Russian stockpiles of weapons plutonium present a sustained risk to global nuclear security.
Missile Defense and Nuclear Risks in the Current Strategic Environment
January 4, 2016
Abstract: Once limited by concerns about its technological feasibility, affordability and destabilizing potential, today, missile defense is becoming a multinational enterprise deployed on a global...
The Prague Agenda after the Iran Deal
December 10, 2015
Abstract: President Obama’s Prague Agenda – moving toward a world without nuclear weapons – has been stalled for several years, due to the downturn in U.S.-Russian relations, Congressional...
The International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Safeguards, 1953-1971
December 1, 2015
Abstract: The nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran moved the International Atomic Energy Agency to the center of public attention.
