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“Escalate to De-escalate” and Limiting Nuclear War: From a U.S. Perspective
Post, April 29, 2026 • May 28, 2024 | Commander Daniel Post discussed his research on the concept of using "escalate to de-escalate" strategies to terminate war by threatening, for example, limited nuclear use. CDR Post’s findings strongly indicate that such strategies are theoretically unsound and likely to increase the risk of escalation in a...

A Day in the Life of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safeguards Analyst
Post, July 21, 2021 • Feb. 25, 2021 | Zoe Gastelum is Acting Manager of the International Safeguards & Engagements Department at Sandia National Laboratories, where she leads research and development efforts on advanced data analytics and human-algorithm performance in support of international safeguards verification. Prior to joining Sandia in 2015, Zoe worked as a...

A Discussion on US-China Collaboration and Competition in Science and Technology Policy
Post, November 16, 2022 • February 17, 2022 | Dr. Peter Cowhey chairs the Working Group on U.S.-China Science and Technology Relations, organized by the UC San Diego 21st Century China Center, and served as a lead author for the “Meeting the China Challenge: A New American Strategy for Technology Competition” report, published in November...

Advancing Norms of Nuclear Responsibility Amidst a Shifting Nuclear Landscape
Post, February 15, 2023 • Nov. 17, 2022 |  Toby Dalton discussed the shifting landscape of the global nuclear order as it pertains to regional security dynamics and states' policies concerning the governance of advanced nuclear technologies and nuclear weapons. He is Co-Director and a Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment...

An Update on India’s Nuclear Security and Governance
Post, November 16, 2022 • Oct. 20, 2021 |  Dr. Sitakanta Mishra, former CMC Visiting Research Scholar and Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of Liberal Studies of Pandit Deendayal Energy University, and Happymon Jacob, Associate Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, both noted regional scholars and authors, will discuss India’s current nuclear security...

BESS from China: National Security Risk or Supply Chain Threat?
Post, April 29, 2026 • October 22, 2024 | Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) technology was the subject of Juan Villareal's talk—in the context of potential cyber-attack scenarios involving Chinese-procured BESS and the broader geopolitical implications of such equipment. Villareal is an accomplished international operations leader specializing in cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, and strategic business development....

Best Practices for Nuclear Security of Spent Nuclear Fuel and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management
Post, August 31, 2021 • Sep. 30, 2021 |  CMC Visiting Research Scholar Fadime Özge Özkan currently serves as a research assistant in the Nuclear Research Division of the Energy Institute at Istanbul Technical University, where she is also pursuing her Ph.D. Ms. Özkan did her undergraduate work in nuclear engineering at Hacettepe University and received...

Biodefense and the Return to Great Power Competition
Post, July 21, 2021 • Apr. 13, 2021 | As part of the CMC Seminar Series’ in-depth look at biological and chemical security issues affecting the U.S. and our global partners in a post- COVID-19 world, the CMC hosts Dr. Gerald Epstein, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University (NDU) Center for the...

Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiatives in the MENA Region
Post, February 15, 2023 • Sep. 1, 2022 |  Dr. Nisreen AL-Hmoud, Director of the Biosafety and Biosecurity Centre at the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan, discussed the impact of initiatives to build biosafety and biosecurity capacity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Dr. AL-Hmoud detailed the impacts, over the last decade, on...

Building Bridges to Foster U.S.-Africa Relations and Counter Chinese Influence
Post, April 29, 2026 • February 19, 2025 | Alternative diplomacy in Africa was the topic of Matthew Hauwiller's seminar, which focused on research he conducted as a 2024 Aspen Strategy Group Rising Leader. Dr. Hauwiller suggests leveraging science diplomacy to address food security and to foster collaborative science and technology research in Africa. Dr....

China’s Global Role, Bureaucracy, and Perspectives on the United States
Post, February 15, 2023 • Oct. 26, 2022 |  Charlie Bergman discussed China's global role, its bureaucracy, and its perspectives on the United States. Bergman currently works on special projects at St. John's College, following a five-year directorship of its Office of Personal and Professional Development. Bergman's extensive experience with Chinese bureaucracy and culture began during...

Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics Around UASs from the Baltic to the Arctic
Post, April 29, 2026 • May 23, 2024 | Dr. James Patton Rogers discussed the use of military drone systems by Russia, the U.S. and NATO allies to secure and protect their interests in the Arctic—due in part to the presence of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Dr. Rogers also addressed activity in the Baltic...

Cooperation, Competition, and Contestation in Arctic Security
Post, April 29, 2026 • February 22, 2024 | For the CMC Strategic Insights Series on the Arctic, Mathieu Boulegue discussed the Arctic's eight nations, its indigenous communities, and the fragility of its unique operating environment. Boulegue is a researcher and consultant in international conflict and security affairs and a fellow of the Chatham House,...

Cooperative Border Security in South Asia
Post, July 21, 2021 • Mar. 31, 2021 | A densely populous region with porous borders, recurring interstate crises, three growing nuclear weapon programs, and expansive regional connectivity projects, South Asia is critical to global considerations of border security. Panelists will discuss the regional threat landscape: major threat actors; key official stakeholders for interdiction; land/maritime/air...

Cybersecurity Culture at Nuclear Facilities
Event • CMC Visiting Research Scholar Maheen Shafeeq presents her research on Cybersecurity Culture at Nuclear Facilities, which will include discussion of cybersecurity risk at nuclear facilities, the relationship between international, state, facility, and individual cybersecurity culture, and the relationship between humans, physical security, and cyber networks. This is a test.

Cybersecurity Culture at Nuclear Facilities
Post, November 16, 2022 • Nov. 16, 2021 |  CMC Visiting Research Scholar Maheen Shafeeq presents her research on Cybersecurity Culture at Nuclear Facilities and discusses cybersecurity risk at nuclear facilities, the relationship between international, state, facility, and individual cybersecurity culture, and the relationship between humans, physical security, and cyber networks. A recording of this seminar...

Disarmament of Nuclear States: Applicability to Future Denuclearization of DPRK
Post, July 21, 2021 • Feb. 2, 2021 | Mr. Robert Kelley discusses his experience as an international disarmament inspector in South Africa, Iraq, and Libya. With more than 35 years of experience in the U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex, Robert Kelley started his career in research and engineering before turning to information...

Discussion of Current and Future Arctic Security Mission Requirements
Post, July 21, 2021 • Jan. 21, 2021 | Major General Randy "Church" Kee, USAF (ret.), currently serves as Executive Director of the Arctic Domain Awareness Center (ADAC) at the University of Alaska and as US Arctic Research Commissioner. In his current position, General Kee leads a distributed team of Arctic-focused science and technology, education...

Emerging and Disruptive Tech and the Future of Arctic Militarization
Post, April 29, 2026 • February 15, 2024 | For the CMC Strategic Insights Series on the Arctic, James Rogers discussed the use of Arctic drones by Russian and Western Arctic States in the context of the region's increasing geologic and geopolitical importance. Dr. Rogers is Executive Director of the Cornell Brooks School Tech Policy...

Emerging Technologies & Strategic Stability in Southern Asia
Post, July 21, 2021 • Mar. 24, 2021 | This Sandia CMC panel discussion covers the evolving crisis onset and escalation risks enabled by emerging technologies and military capabilities to assess their implications for strategic stability in the region. Technologies and capabilities under consideration include globally new developments, such as capabilities enabled by artificial intelligence,...

Haitian Migration in the Americas: Highlights
Post, April 29, 2026 • May 29, 2024 | For the Strategic Insights Series on the Migration/National Security Nexus, Dr. Valerie Lacarte discussed the looming immigration crisis as conditions in Haiti continue to deteriorate. Dr. Lacarte detailed the need for a regional proactive approach to Haitian displacements similar to the current Regional Interagency Coordination Platform...

IAEA Nuclear Security Programme
Post, July 21, 2021 • Mar. 4, 2021 | Kristóf Horváth, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nuclear Material Security Unit, previously served as the IAEA Senior Nuclear Security Officer responsible for International Physical Protection Advisory Service (IPPAS) missions, regulation development, threat assessment, design basis threat, and nuclear security culture related issues, and...

India in the Evolving Space Security Domain (with panel discussion)
Post, July 21, 2021 • Mar. 11, 2021 | Dr. Rajeswari Rajagopalan, a leading Indian expert on space security, will discuss India’s evolving approach to space and its strategy to address the domain’s changing security dynamics. Ankit Panda from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Aaron Bateman from Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Nancy Hayden...

Indigenous Security and Arctic Governance: Navigating the Intersection
Post, April 29, 2026 • February 29, 2024 | For the final seminar in the CMC Strategic Insights Series on the Arctic, Apostolos Tsiouvalas discussed the indigenous people of the Arctic—their demographics, rights under international law, governance participation, and ongoing security challenges. Tsiouvalas is an international lawyer, a research fellow at the Norwegian Centre for...

JAEA Policy Research on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security
Post, April 29, 2026 • August 27, 2024 | Hirofumi Tomikawa of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) discussed recent research efforts including a study on the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security. Tomikawa is general manager of the Management and Policy Research Office of JAEA's Integrated Support Center...

Myths and Realities of China’s Growing Inroads into Maritime South Asia
Post, April 29, 2026 • December 11, 2024 | Dr. Jingdong Yuan discussed the causality, intentionality, and goal attainment of Beijing’s efforts in developing influences in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Dr. Yuan is a senior researcher and director of the China and Asia Security Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He...

Navigating the Persian Puzzle
Post, April 29, 2026 • February 12, 2025 | Dr. Farzan Sabet provides an overview of 50 years of Iranian nuclear history offering a broader historical perspective focusing on the diplomatic and security aspects. His lecture on “Navigating the Persian Puzzle” examines the evolution of Iran's nuclear programs and analyzes recent changes in the context...

Negotiating Uncertainty into the Making of the Global Nuclear Order
Post, June 1, 2023 • May 22, 2023 | Dr. J. Luis Rodriguez, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), discussed the politics of imprecision in security-related international treaties. Dr. Rodriguez addressed why states choose to obfuscate the definitions of the object they set out to limit through international...

Opportunities and Challenges in a Changing Arctic
Post, April 29, 2026 • February 8, 2024 | Klaus Dodds gave the first talk in the CMC Strategic Insights Series on the Arctic, detailing the increase in geopolitical tensions. Dr. Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Dean for the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway, University of London. The video...

Pacific Forum: Finding a Better Way
Post, July 21, 2021 • Dec. 3, 2020 | Dr. David Santoro is Vice President and Director for Nuclear Policy at the Honolulu-based Pacific Forum, a foreign policy think tank. He specializes in strategic and deterrence issues as well as nonproliferation and nuclear security, focusing mostly on Asia. He is involved in many of Pacific...

Recruiter, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Post, July 21, 2021 • Feb. 17, 2021 | What is it like to work at the world’s foremost intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the nuclear field? The Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) Seminar Series welcomes Steve Amundsen, recruiter for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who will discuss careers and job opportunities...

Regulating Migration in a New Security World
Post, April 29, 2026 • June 18, 2024 | For the Strategic Insights Series on the Migration/National Security Nexus, Dr. Gallya Lahav discussed changes in the politics of migration post 9/11—from demographic and economic considerations to cultural issues—in the context of national security. The author of Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State: The Politics of...

Remote Intervention Solutions for Nuclear Power Plants
Post, April 29, 2026 • September 11, 2025 | The CMC welcomed Germán Kuglien, Head of Business Development of Combustibles Nucleares Argentinos (CONUAR S.A.) for a seminar presentation on the organization’s technical solutions for remote intervention in nuclear power plants and opportunities for U.S.-Argentina collaboration in the nuclear sector. Mr. Kuglien shared details of the...

Remote Sensing to Support Nuclear Nonproliferation Challenges and Opportunities
Post, November 28, 2023 • May 3, 2023 | Dr. Timothy Warner, Emeritus Professor of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University, discussed the challenges and opportunities associated with using remote sensing to support the nuclear nonproliferation work of non-governmental organizations and treaty organizations like the International Atomic Energy Agency. For the past 10 years,...

Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence
Post, January 8, 2024 • August 3, 2023  | Dr. Matthew Bunn discussed rethinking nuclear deterrence in the context of a multipolar nuclear world, the fever pitch of hostility between nuclear-armed states, and new technologies from hypersonic missiles to artificial intelligence. Dr. Bunn is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of the Practice of Energy, National...

Science at the OPCW – There’s Always Room for More
Post, July 21, 2021 • Apr. 28, 2021 | Peter Hotchkiss, Senior Science Policy Officer at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), discusses current scientific themes and the role that science plays at the Organisation as part of the CMC Seminar Series’ in-depth look at chemical and biological security issues affecting the...

The Case for Redeploying Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons to South Korea
Post, April 29, 2026 • October 8, 2025 | The CMC welcomed Robert Peters for a presentation of his recent publication, “The Case for Redeploying Non-Strategic Weapons to South Korea.” Peters outlined regional threats, his thoughts on enhancing the credibility of U.S. deterrence, and arguments against deploying non-strategic weapons to Korea. Robert is a Senior...

The Nuclear Security Landscape and the NNSA Mission Space
Post, June 1, 2023 • April 17, 2023 | Monte Mallin, the Deputy Director of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, discussed the NNSA mission space with regard to the nuclear security landscape. In his current role, Mallin helps to oversee the implementation of enterprise-wide strategic planning, governance, and...

The Women and the Bomb Project
Post, April 29, 2026 • May 15, 2024 | Dr. Jana Wattenberg gave a talk on her Women and the Bomb project—an assessment of whether and how women working in the nuclear weapons field could effect change. This three-year research project won a Marie Skodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship grant. Dr. Wattenberg is a postdoctoral fellow...

U.S. Immigration Policy: How Did It Become the Issue du Jour?
Post, April 29, 2026 • May 8, 2024 | For the Strategic Insights Series on the Migration/National Security Nexus, Muzaffar Chishti discussed two U.S. immigration crises—the labor market and border crises—and recommendations for radically improving the existing immigration selection system. A senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and director of the MPI office...

Understanding Violent Extremism in West Africa
Post, April 29, 2026 • May 29, 2025 | The CMC hosted Dr. Daniel Eizenga, a Research Fellow at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, for a discussion on countering violent extremism in the Sahel. He provided policy recommendations for West African governments and explored opportunities to enhance nonproliferation efforts in the region, drawing on...