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Dr Potter Lecture on US Soviet Cooperation for Nonproliferation

US-Soviet Cooperation for Nonproliferation: Lessons for Today

VIDEO: Dr. William Potter, Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and CNS Founding Director.

Siegfried Hecker

US-Russia Nuclear Relations

VIDEO: Siegfried Hecker on the evolution of Cold War nuclear relations going from confrontation to limited cooperation.

Russian and US Flags Video

US-Soviet Cooperation for Nonproliferation: Several Case Studies with Implications for Today

VIDEO: Seminar with speakers Nikolai Sokov, Sarah Bidgood, and Adlan Margoev

Alexander Nikitin

What Moscow Expects from the Trump Administration

VIDEO: Dr. Alexander Nikitin offers his insights about the agenda for American-Russian dialogue under the Trump administration and Moscow’s expectations.

President Gerald Ford, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and other US representatives meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko, Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, and others aboard a Russian train headed for Vladivostok, November 23, 1974. Image courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. (Src: Wikimedia Commons)

A Non-Ideological Reframing of the US-Russian Arms-Control Agenda

The disappearance of US superiority in non-nuclear capabilities should be the impetus for a return to traditional arms-control in US-Russia relations.

Nuclear Security Summit 2016fi

Summits Made Some Headway on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2016: Nuclear Security Summits are improving the security of vulnerable nuclear material.

Donald Trump

Presidential Command and Control in the Age of Trump

What can we do with Trump holding the nuclear codes?

Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and CNS Director William Potter

High-level Russian Official Leads Discussion on Bilateral Relations

NOVEMBER 12, 2016: Ambassador Sergey Kislyak shared ideas on areas for progress in deteriorated US-Russia relations.

US Russia Flags

How American and Russian Nuclear Scientists Joined Forces to Mitigate Post-Cold War Dangers

VIDEO: Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker is a research professor and senior fellow at Stanford University.

Vladimir Putin. Photo courtesy Kremlin.ru.

Putin suspends US-Russia plutonium disposal agreement

CNS experts are available to comment on the latest downturn in US-Russia relations.