http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from CISACen-usPublic domainhttp://cisac.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/60http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1537A U.S. official says a preliminary review of thousands of documents shows North Korea has fully accounted for its plutonium development program. But the papers may not convince skeptics that the disarmament process is moving ahead.]]>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1537?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1534Siegfried Hecker and William Perry argue that the Bush administration should not walk away or slow down talks with Pyongyang, instead it should focus on limiting North Korea's nuclear capabilities by concluding the elimination of plutonium production.]]>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1534?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1533Ohio Wesleyan University presented CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during its 164th commencement ceremony on May 11.]]>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1533?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1525The National Research Council at the National Academies has released a new, book-length report from its Committee on the Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assistance Programs. CDDRL/CISAC faculty member Jeremy Weinstein was a member of the committee and co-author of the report, "Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research," which is available for PDF download and will be published in hard copy Dec. 2008.]]>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1525?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1522Dr. Hecker testified April 30, 2008, about the importance of expanding the cooperative threat reduction programs to counter the growing proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons capability.]]>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1522?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1521CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1521?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1520The American Physical Society has honored CISAC's Podvig for helping a establish in Moscow "a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia."]]>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1520?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1512After visiting the Yongbyon nuclear complex in February, CISAC's Co-Director Siegfried Hecker, the former head of Los Alamos National Lab, judges that North Korean officials are working in "good faith" to disable the facilities. But he warns that complete denuclearization presents formidable obstacles.]]>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1512?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1496CISAC members %people2%, %people4%, and %people3% participated in"Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution," a daylong event co-hosted by Stanford Law School. CISAC affiliate %people1% conceived and developed the project.]]>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1496?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1493The International Studies Association has awarded CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan the 2008 Deborah "Misty" Gerner Innovative Teaching in International Studies Award for his simulation exercise that he has taught to Stanford undergraduates for the last decade through PS 114S "International Security in a Changing World."]]>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1493?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1478Kingston Reif interviews CISAC affiliate Leonard Weiss for Nukes of Hazard, a project of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. YouTube video available.]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1478?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1479Siegfried Hecker's report was presented as part of a formal report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 17, 2008, by Keith Luse, senior staffer to Sen. Richard Lugar.]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1479?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1480Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry, co-director of CISAC's Preventive Defense Project, has been named chair of a Congressional bipartisan commission nominated March 19 to examine America's strategic military posture, including the "appropriate role" of nuclear weapons.]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1480?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1481%people1%, an Iraqi journalist living in the United States and a visiting scholar at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute, talks about the frustrations and fears Iraqis face five years after the beginning of the war in Iraq. She also shares the personal struggles she faces living in the U.S. while her family faces daily dangers in Iraq.]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1481?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1509Herbert L. Abrams, CISAC member-in-residence and Stanford professor of radiology, emeritus, looks at the issue of a presidential candidate's age and its effect on decision-making.]]>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1509?