Investigators
Scott D. Sagan - Stanford University
Paul Kapur - U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Stephen J. Stedman - Stanford University
Thomas Fingar - Stanford University
Siegfried S. Hecker - Stanford University
Leonard Weiss - Stanford University

Through research and track-two diplomacy, CISAC seeks to identify cooperative measures to decrease the likelihood that India and Pakistan will engage in a nuclear arms race or use nuclear weapons. The Center also promotes ideas to further effective diplomacy between the neighboring countries and their respective governments.

As part of this effort, in 2003-4, CISAC's Five-Nation Project convened senior officials and specialists from five nuclear nations--China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States--to discuss and produce joint proposals aimed at tackling issues involving weapons of mass destruction, the Indo-Pakistani conflict, terrorism and regional cooperation. The meetings offered a rare opportunity for senior diplomats, area and weapons specialists, and former or active-duty military officers from these countries to discuss some of the most sensitive global security issues.

Building on this and other track-two efforts, CISAC brings together a mixture of younger and more established strategic thinkers from India and Pakistan--including academics, civilian politicians and diplomats, and former senior military officers--to analyze alternative agreements and reciprocal, unilateral arms control measures aimed at constraining nuclear weapons-related procurement and operations.