Hecker to Speak on US - Russian Relations

Former LANL Director Sig Hecker will discuss his book, Doomed to Cooperate, during a talk that addresses the question "Are we still Doomed to Cooperate? Published last summer, Doomed to Cooperate tells the story of nuclear scientists from Russia and the United States who reached across political, geographic and cultural divides to confront the new nuclear threats that resulted from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hecker will cover how the book was completed during a time when relations between Moscow and Washington collapsed. He also will look at future prospects for U.S.-Russian nuclear cooperation in the new political environment.

Free and open to the public.