Publications

The world's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) requires countries without nuclear weapons to accept inspections by the IAEA. The purpose is to assure that these NPT members — referred to in the Tr...chevron_right

This report summarizes the findings of a delegation of Stanford University faculty members on North Korea's nuclear program. The authors assume that, given the demonstrated technical capabilities, Nor...chevron_right

The ultimate terrorist attack is a nuclear explosion in a city. The likelihood of such an event is uncertain, but the consequences would be enormous. As many as a hundred thousand people could be kill...chevron_right

This paper argues that the protection and advancement of US national security interests require a greater investment in alliances. The author states that the purpose of alliances in US national securi...chevron_right

This testimony to the US House of Representatives analyzes common patterns of how civil wars evolve and how they end, assessing where Iraq fits into the general pattern. The author stresses that "stay...chevron_right

Securing all fissile material around the world is considerably more challenging than locking it up to a “gold standard.” The first section of this article describes those challenges, which are both te...chevron_right

Several models have been proposed for the dose–response function and the incubation period distribution for human inhalation anthrax. These models give very different predictions for the severity of a...chevron_right

Military history is a Eurocentric discipline, as Jeremy Black observes. So too is military sociology. The discussion looks at the Indian army during the Second World War from both the societal and org...chevron_right

Does America need allies? The United States is the strongest nation on earth, the only standing superpower, and its natural impulse is to assume that it can act unencumbered. Paradoxically, America ne...chevron_right

This Article adopts a two-tiered approach: it provides a detailed, historical account of anti-terrorist finance initiatives in the United Kingdom and United States - two states driving global norms in...chevron_right

In October 2001, President George W. Bush authorized the National Security Agency "to intercept the international communications of people with known links to al Qaida and related terrorist organizati...chevron_right

Policymakers fight over bureaucratic structure because it helps shape the legal interpretations and regulatory decisions of agencies through which modern governments operate. In this article, we updat...chevron_right

In this article, the authors critique the Eurocentric character of security studies as it has developed since World War II. The taken-for-granted historical geographies that underpin security studies ...chevron_right

The authors of this article developed a mathematical model of a cows-to-consumers supply chain associated with a single milk-processing facility that is the victim of a deliberate release of botulinum...chevron_right

The publication in this issue of PNAS of the article by Wein and Liu titled ‘‘Analyzing a bioterror attack on the food supply: the case of botulinum toxin in milk,’’ raises important issues concerning...chevron_right