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{{Infobox philosopher
| main_interests = [[Nuclear proliferation]]
| image = Scott Sagan.png
| caption = Scott Sagan in 2018
| birth_name = Scott Douglas Sagan
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1955}}
| birth_place =
| institutions = [[Stanford University]]<br /> [[Harvard University]]
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|education=[[Oberlin College]] ([[B. A.|BA]])<br />[[Harvard University]] ([[PhD]])}}
'''Scott Douglas Sagan''' (born 1955) is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of [[Political Science]] at [[Stanford University]] and
In 2017
He currently serves as
==Biography==
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Sagan is known for his research on the organizations managing nuclear weapons and published on the subject in ''The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons'' ([[Princeton University Press]], 1993). [[Bruce G. Blair]] writes, "Scott Sagan's book [The Limits of Safety] is nothing less than a tour de force.... It is by far the most carefully researched and painstaking study of nuclear weapons safety ever written."<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691021015/ Book review at Amazon], same source counts that 100 books cite this book</ref><ref>{{cite journal
| author =Charles Perrow
| year =2006
| title =The Limits of Safety: The Enhancement of a Theory of Accidents
| journal =Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
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| issue =4
| pages =212–220
| doi =10.1111/j.1468-5973.1994.tb00046.x
| url =http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119973206/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
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He also is one of the leading pessimist scholars about [[nuclear proliferation]], and his co-authored book with [[Kenneth Waltz]], ''The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed'',<ref>{{Cite book|isbn=978-0393977479
His most recent publications include ''The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fragile Balance of Terror |url=https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501767029/the-fragile-balance-of-terror/#bookTabs=1 |website=Cornell University Press}}</ref> co-edited with [[Vipin Narang]] (Cornell University Press, 2022); ''Insider Threats'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100868640|title = Books}}</ref> co-edited with Matthew Bunn (Cornell University Press, 2017); ''Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24812|title = Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima | Edited by Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan| date=2016 | publisher=Stanford University Press | isbn=978-0-8047-9561-6 }}</ref> co-edited with Edward D. Blandford (Stanford University Press, 2016); and guest editor of a two-volume special issue of ''Daedalus, New Dilemmas in Ethics, Technology, and War'' (Fall 2016 and Winter 2017).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/daed/145/4|title = Volume 145 Issue 4 | Daedalus | MIT Press}}</ref> Sagan is also the author of ''Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security'' (Princeton University Press, 1989); and ''The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons'' (Princeton University Press, 1993). He is the co-editor of ''Planning the Unthinkable'' (Cornell University Press, 2000) with Peter R. Lavoy and James L. Wirtz; the editor of ''Inside Nuclear South Asia'' ([[Stanford University Press]], 2009); co-editor of a two-volume special issue of ''Daedalus, On the Global Nuclear Future'' (Fall 2009 and Winter 2010), with Steven E. Miller. Other publications include "The Case for No First Use" in ''[[Survival (journal)|Survival]]'' (June 2009);
==Awards==
Scott Sagan was selected in 2018 by the [[Carnegie Corporation of New York|Carnegie Corporation]] as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Scott Sagan |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/scott-sagan/ |access-date=2022-06-27 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York |language=en}}</ref> In 2017, Scott Sagan received the [[International Studies Association]]'s [[Susan Strange Award]].<ref name="stanford.edu"/> The award recognizes a person whose
==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|
*[[Nuclear Tipping Point]]
*[[Nuclear weapons debate]]
*[[Sam Nunn]]
*[[William J. Perry|William Perry]]
*[[Henry Kissinger]]
*[[George P. Shultz]]
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