October 8, 2026
Dr. Siegfried Hecker
Cooperation with China in any area of technology is heavily constrained today. Hecker presented the challenges for nuclear cooperation at CNS in July 2024. He revisits the history of US-China cooperation in nuclear security after completing the report “A Personal Perspective of U.S.-China Nuclear Science and Security Cooperation” posted on the CNS website.
Speaker:
Dr. Siegfried Hecker, Distinguished Professor of Practice, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies; Director Emeritus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Moderator:
Dr. William Potter, Director, Center for Nonproliferation Studies and
Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies,
Middlebury College
Discussant:
Yanliang Pan, Research Associate and Project Manager, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury College
Partners in Rivalry: U.S.-China civil nuclear ties in historical perspective
