http://www.radio4all.net/program/55593Podcast for Program: Professor Scott D. Sagan - Co-chair of the American Academy of Arts and Science's Global Nuclear Future Initiative and Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute 31-oct-2011Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:04:47 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/55593 Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute. A new speaker has just been added to the "War and Ethics" Series which Professor Sagan has helped organize. Here are the details: November 16 4:30pm / Bldg 260, Room 113 (main quad) "Reporting Guantanamo: America's Experiment in Extraterritorial Detention" Carol Rosenberg (Journalist) Here's the website for the series which is open to the public with the majority of the events being free: http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/ethics-and-war/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite being very busy, Professor Sagan was extremely kind to have come on the show to play some excellent songs. On the show, he talks about a series which he helped organize at Stanford University called, "War and Ethics." Professor Sagan's website is: http://cisac.stanford.edu/people/2223/ Professor Sagan also serves as the co-chair of the American Academy of Arts and Science's Global Nuclear Future Initiative. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Sagan was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as a special assistant to the director of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. He has served as a consultant to the office of the Secretary of Defense and at the Sandia National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Sagan is the author of Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security (Princeton University Press, 1989), The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons (Princeton University Press, 1993), and with co-author Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (W.W. Norton, 2002). He is the co-editor of Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, and James L. Wirtz, Planning the Unthinkable (Cornell University Press, 2000), the editor of Inside Nuclear South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2009), and co-editor with Steven E. Miller of a two-volume special issue of Daedalus, On the Global Nuclear Future (Fall 2009 and Winter 2010). His most recent publications include "Shared Responsibility for Nuclear Disarmament" in the fall 2009 issue of Daedalus and "The Case for No-First Use" in the June 2009 issue of Survival. In addition, he co-edited with Jane Vaynman a special issue of The Nonproliferation Review (March 2011) on the international impact of the 2010 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, also co-authoring the introduction and conclusion articles. Byrd (admin: kku)Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:04:47 +0000