April 17, 2009
Former Los Alamos Director and current Co-Director of the Center
for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University,
Dr. Siegfried Hecker will be speaking as part of the Nuclear
Technology and Society Invited Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the
Nuclear Engineering Department and NSSPI. Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker
will discuss how North Korea proclaimed itself a world nuclear
power on Oct. 9, 2006, with its nuclear weapon test. Although the
technical success of the test is highly questionable, it changed
the political dynamics on the Korean Peninsula in the North's
favor. ...
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February 17, 2009
Former ambassador and NNSA administrator, Mr. Linton Brooks will
be speaking as part of the Nuclear Technology and Society Invited
Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Nuclear Engineering Department
and NSSPI. Ambassador Brooks will discuss the twin challenges of
nuclear policy and nuclear arms control facing the new
Administration. Prospects for further reductions in nuclear
weapons
including ultimately their abolition
will be presented and evaluated. Various proposals for changing
nuclear weapons policy and for modernizing the nuclear weapons
complex will be critiqued. The lecture...
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