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Nuclear policy
Recent Scholarly Publications
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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.
Mission Impossible? Socio-technical Integration of Nuclear Waste Geological Disposal Systems
November 2018
Abstract: We present a new perspective on geological disposal systems for nuclear waste.
Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies
November 2017
Security studies scholarship on nuclear weapons is particularly prone to self-censorship.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: From Pariah and Piñata to Managing Partner
June 2017
This is a chapter in the second edition of The National Security Enterprise, a book edited by Roger Z.
A MOOC With Meaning
May 2017
Under the sponsorship of Stanford University, we designed a massive open online course (MOOC) to raise public consciousness about the past, present, and future dangers of nuclear weapons.
When Science Brought Americans and Russians Together
April 2017
Siegfried Hecker describes the scientific collaboration that took place between Russian and American nuclear weapons laboratories following the end of the Cold War.
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
January 2017
Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy?
Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons
September 2016
In Unclear Physics, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer tells the story of the Iraqi and Libyan programs from their origins in the late 1950s and 1960s until their dismantling.
Questions for the presidential candidates on nuclear terrorism, proliferation, weapons policy, and energy
September 2016
Stanford expert Siegfried Hecker proposes a series of nuclear weapons and energy questions that journalists and citizens should consider asking the 2016 presidential candidates.
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.
Uranium Africain, une histoire globale
April 2016
This is a 2016 French translation of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (2012), translated by Charlotte Nordmann and part of the series "L'Univers Historique."
Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security After Fukushima (edited volume)
April 2016
This book—the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort—brings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and...
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
January 2016
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe.
The Soviet Union and the Creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency
January 2016
The Soviet Union responded sceptically to Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech in December 1953 but eventually entered negotiations on the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
European Nuclear Nationalism: the UK and France (book chapter)
December 2015
France and the UK have had different approaches to the possibility of nuclear disarmament; these derive from the different post- Second World War national narratives in which the development of...
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.
Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War, 1945-1962 (chapter)
August 2015
Nuclear weapons are so central to the history of the Cold War that it can be difficult to disentangle the two. Did nuclear weapons cause the Cold War? Did they contribute to its escalation?
Deterrence and Enforcement in a World Free of Nuclear Weapons (chapter)
August 2015
This report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role.
A Bet Portrayed as a Certainty: Reassessing the Added Deterrent Value of Nuclear Weapons (book chapter)
March 2015
In this paper, I address three of the most frequently used arguments for maintaining a significant measure of dependence for international security on nuclear deterrence both globally and...
Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
February 2013
How strong are normative prohibitions on state behavior?
A Winning Gambit
September 2012
CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker explains why nuclear arms states stand to gain more than they lose by ratifying the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
March 2012
From MIT University Press Abstract: "Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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