Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers

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Siegfried Hecker, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and research professor of Management Science and Engineering, published his recently edited book, Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers. The book throws unusual light on the end of the cold war and tells of US-Russian nuclear weapons laboratories cooperation. Published by the Los Alamos Historical Society, Doomed to Cooperateis a narrative of many voices of scientists and officials on the Russian and American sides each presenting a piece of a 20-plus-year collaboration. The book is 2 volumes of nearly 1000 pages total and has over one hundred contributors, including Stanford University scholars David L. Clark, Siegfried Hecker, Alla Anatolievna Kassianova, Jefferey H. Richardson, and John Taylor and former CISAC researcher Nicolaos Milonopoulas.

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Siegfried S. Hecker is an affiliated faculty of CREEES, Professor (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). He was co-director of CISAC from 2007-2012. From 1986 to 1997, Dr. Hecker served as the fifth Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Hecker is an internationally recognized expert in plutonium science, global threat reduction, and nuclear security.

Dr. Hecker’s current research interests include plutonium science, nuclear weapons policy, nuclear security, and the safe and secure expansion of nuclear energy. Over the past 20 years, he has fostered cooperation with the Russian nuclear laboratories to secure and safeguard the vast stockpile of ex-Soviet fissile materials.