Scott Sagan

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Scott Sagan is affiliated with the following schools: Oberlin College, Stanford University, University of Aberdeen, Harvard University

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Political Science

#690

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#881

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#368

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Public Policy

#290

World Rank

#299

Historical Rank

#153

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According to Wikipedia, Scott Douglas Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation . He is known for his research on nuclear weapons policy and nuclear disarmament, including discussions of system accidents, and has published widely on these subjects.

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Scott Sagan's Published Works

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The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons (1993) (787)
Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons? Three Models in Search of a Bomb (1996) (677)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: Domestic Politics and War (1988) (364)
Hostages of Each Other: The Transformation of Nuclear Safety Since Three Mile Island. (1995) (233)
The spread of nuclear weapons : a debate renewed : with new sections on India and Pakistan, terrorism, and missile defense (2002) (203)
The Perils of Proliferation: Organization Theory, Deterrence Theory, and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (1994) (184)
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (1995) (179)
The Causes of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (2011) (142)
The Problem of Redundancy Problem: Why More Nuclear Security Forces May Produce Less Nuclear Security † (2004) (142)
Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons (2013) (121)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Theory of Hegemonic War (1988) (109)
Toward a Political Theory of Organizational Reliability (1994) (91)
Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans Really Think about Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Noncombatants (2017) (85)
1914 Revisited: Allies, Offense, and Instability (1986) (84)
The Perils of Predicting Proliferation (2009) (83)
Nuclear Alerts and Crisis Management (1985) (79)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars (1989) (75)
Living with Nuclear Weapons (1983) (71)
The Commitment Trap: Why the United States Should Not Use Nuclear Threats to Deter Biological and Chemical Weapons Attacks (2000) (70)
The Origins of the Pacific War (1988) (68)
Planning the unthinkable : how new powers will use nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (2000) (64)
The spread of nuclear weapons : an enduring debate : with new chapters on Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, and on the prospects for global nuclear disarmament (2013) (60)
Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security (1989) (59)
How to Keep the Bomb From Iran (2006) (59)
Learning from Normal Accidents (2004) (54)
A Nuclear Iran: Promoting Stability or Courting Disaster? (2007) (53)
The Madman Nuclear Alert: Secrecy, Signaling, and Safety in October 1969 (2003) (51)
The Case for No First Use (2009) (43)
The Limits of Safety (2020) (42)
Nuclear power without nuclear proliferation? (2009) (42)
The Perils of Proliferation in South Asia (2001) (39)
Inside Nuclear South Asia (2011) (38)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of War: Structural Theories (1989) (35)
Nuclear Latency and Nuclear Proliferation (2010) (30)
The Gulf Conflict 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. (1993) (28)
Not Just a War Theory: American Public Opinion on Ethics in Combat (2018) (22)
Shared responsibilities for nuclear disarmament (2009) (20)
What do Americans really think about conflict with nuclear North Korea? The answer is both reassuring and disturbing (2019) (20)
India and Pakistan's Unstable Peace (2005) (17)
Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Realist Perspectives on Ethical Norms and Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004) (17)
Just War and Unjust Soldiers: American Public Opinion on the Moral Equality of Combatants (2019) (15)
Targeting Top Terrorists (2018) (15)
The Nuclear Necessity Principle: Making U.S. Targeting Policy Conform with Ethics & the Laws of War (2016) (14)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of the Thirty Years' War (1988) (13)
The Changing Rules of War (2017) (10)
Policy: A call for global nuclear disarmament (2012) (9)
The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons (1995) (9)
6. A Worst Practices Guide to Insider Threats (2017) (9)
The Origins of Offense and the Consequences of Counterforce (1986) (8)
Forum: The Case for No First Use: An Exchange (2009) (8)
Kettles of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Noncombatant Immunity in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Israel (2022) (8)
Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima (2016) (7)
The Rule of Law and the Role of Strategy in U.S. Nuclear Doctrine (2021) (7)
Organized for Accidents (1994) (6)
Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons (2000) (6)
Alternative nuclear futures (2010) (6)
The Korean Missile Crisis (2017) (5)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: Wargames: 1914–1919 (1988) (5)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of World War II in Europe: British Deterrence Failure and German Expansionism (1988) (5)
CONCLUSION: Lessons Learned from the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review (2011) (5)
INTRODUCTION: Reviewing the Nuclear Posture Review (2011) (4)
Does the Noncombatant Immunity Norm Have Stopping Power? A Debate (2020) (4)
1. Insiders and Outsiders: A Survey of Terrorist Threats to Nuclear Facilities (2017) (4)
Responding to Chemical and Biological Threats (2001) (4)
The Face of Battle without the Rules of War: Lessons from Red Horse & the Battle of the Little Bighorn (2017) (4)
Lessons of the Yom Kippur Alert (1979) (4)
Responses and Reflections: Reply (1995) (3)
Why the atomic bombing of Hiroshima would be illegal today (2020) (3)
History, Analogy, and Deterrence Theory@@@Extended Deterrence and the Prevention of War@@@Perspectives on Deterrence (1991) (3)
Weighing Lives in War: How National Identity Influences American Public Opinion about Foreign Civilian and Compatriot Fatalities (2019) (3)
The Future of the Nuclear Order (2014) (3)
Political Scientists and Historians in Search of the Bomb (2013) (3)
2. The Fort Hood Terrorist Attack: An Organizational Postmortem of Army and FBI Deficiencies (2017) (3)
Civil-mililtary relations and nuclear weapons (1994) (3)
Nuclear Power, Nuclear Proliferation and the NPT (2010) (3)
Reputations , Resolve , and Coercive Bargaining ∗ (2015) (3)
On Reciprocity, Revenge, and Replication: A Rejoinder to Walzer, McMahan, and Keohane (2019) (3)
NEGOTIATING NONPROLIFERATION: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Nuclear Weapons Policy (2012) (3)
Deterring Rogue Regimes: Rethinking Deterrence Theory and Practice (2013) (2)
Are Belligerent Reprisals against Civilians Legal? (2021) (2)
The limitation of Safety-Organizations, accidents and nuclear weapons (2011) (2)
Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation (2017) (2)
NUCLEAR DANGERS IN SOUTH ASIA (2004) (2)
The Path to Indivisibility : Time and the Entrenchment of Territorial Disputes (2010) (2)
Proliferation Pessimism and Emerging Nuclear Powers (2011) (2)
Dissuasion and the NPT Regime: Complementary or Contradictory Strategies?; Strategic Insights, v. 3 issue 10 (October 2004) (2004) (2)
& Scott Sagan Nuclear power without nuclear proliferation? (2009) (1)
Insider Threats (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) (2016) (1)
Boundaries in Depth and in Motion (1)
Land Grabs: Causes, Consequences, and the Evolution of Territorial Conquest (2016) (1)
The Bomb Beyond Borders: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Non-Combatant Immunity Norms in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Israel (2019) (1)
Convenient Consensus and Serious Debate about Disarmament (2010) (1)
Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks. By Barry R. Posen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 280p. $36.50. (1992) (1)
Slaying the Nuclear Dragon (2017) (1)
Ethics, Technology & War (2016) (1)
From Polaris to Trident: The Development of the U.S. Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology . By Graham Spinardi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 253p. $54.95. (1995) (1)
Correspondence: Are Belligerent Reprisals against Civilians Legal? (2021) (0)
Origins of Military Doctrines and Command and Control Systems; and Conclusions: Planning the Unthinkable, The (2000) (0)
Contents and Author Index, Volume 20, 2013 (2013) (0)
The Case for No First Use of Nuclear Weapons (2010) (0)
The Iran Nuclear Crisis: An Update (2007) (0)
CONCLUSION (2011) (0)
APSA Contributors (2013) (0)
Armed and Dangerous (2018) (0)
The Conundrum of Close Calls: Lessons Learned for Securing Nuclear Weapons (2012) (0)
Posturing for Peace? Vipin Narang Pakistan’s Nuclear Postures and South Asian Stability (2009) (0)
Correspondence Susan B. Martin (2001) (0)
Inconstant Care: Public Attitudes Towards Force Protection and Civilian Casualties in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel (2022) (0)
5. Nuclear Latency and Nuclear Proliferation (2010) (0)
Just and Unjust Nuclear Deterrence (2023) (0)
Nuclear Revelations About the Nuclear Revolution (Summer 2021) (2021) (0)
4. Green-on-Blue Violence: A First Look at Lessons from the Insider Threat in Afghanistan (2017) (0)
Index to International Security Volume 27 (Summer 2002-Spring 2003) (2003) (0)
Moving Targets (2020) (0)
Contents and Author Index, Volume 21, 2014 (2014) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
Public opinion, commitment traps and nuclear weapons policy (2015) (0)
Assessing Threats during the “ Appeasement ” Crises of the 1930 s (2005) (0)
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply (2023) (0)
3. Lessons from the Anthrax Letters (2017) (0)
E. & Scott D. Sagan Nuclear power without nuclear proliferation? (2009) (0)
Congressional Demands for American Troop Withdrawals from Western Europe: The Past as Prologue (1976) (0)
INTRODUCTION (2011) (0)
Introduction: Inside the Insider Threat (2017) (0)

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