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Alla A. Kassianova

Alla A. Kassianova is a senior researcher at the Center for International Security and Cooperation of Stanford University, where she works on the lab-to-lab project documenting 20 years of US-Russian collaboration in the nuclear sphere. She has taught in the international relations program of Tomsk University, Russia and conducted research in Russia, Europe, and North America. Her research has focused on the interplay of identity and security politics and developments in the Russian defense sector.


Articles by Alla A. Kassianova

Young professionals on a night out in Red Square (left to right): Elliot Serbin, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University; Maxime Polleri, CISAC, Stanford, Elizaveta Likhacheva, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI); William Heerdt, Monterey Institute for International Studies; Anna Kudriavtseva, MEPhI; Daine Danielson, University of Chicago; James McKeon, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Ksenia Pirnavskaya, MEPhI; Gabriela Levikow, CISAC, Stanford; and Katie McKinney, CISAC, Stanford.

Three major nuclear accidents, as seen by young American and Russian professionals

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Alla A. Kassianova | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
Siegfried Hecker chats with some of the participants in the US-Russia Young Professionals Nuclear Forum

The future of global nuclear power through the eyes of young Russian and American professionals

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Alla A. Kassianova | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow