Release of Siegfried Hecker's book, "Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers"

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.