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Dealing with Russia and North Korea: an interview with Siegfried Hecker / Atlas, Terry

Atlas, Terry	Journal Article
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Siegfried Hecker, one of the nation’s top nuclear weapons experts, served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997. He organized U.S.-Russian lab-to-lab cooperation on nuclear weapons safety and security issues at the end of the Cold War era, which is the subject of the recent book he edited, Doomed to Cooperate (2016), about that remarkable period of scientific collaboration. He is an authority on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, having visited that country seven times between 2004 and 2010. Hecker currently is a research professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

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Russia ; North Korea ; Interview

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Lawrence Weiler: looking back at the nuclear nonproliferation treaty / Kimball, Daryl G; Atlas, Terry

Kimball, Daryl G	Journal Article
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Lawrence Weiler was special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) and a U.S. negotiator on the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and other arms control measures during his government service under six U.S. presidents. As that landmark accord approaches its 50th anniversary next year, Weiler, now 96, recalled its creation and assessed its impact in a June interview with Arms Control Association Executive Director Daryl Kimball and ACT Editor Terry Atlas.

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NPT ; Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ; Nuclear Arms Control ; Nuclear Arms Race ; Civilian Nuclear Technology

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