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Online Event: PONI Virtual Winter Conference 2020
December 9 – 10, 2020
Held virtually, this conference will feature two days of presentations from rising experts covering topics such as regional nuclear policy and strategy, arms control and disarmament, proliferation challenges, and deterrence. All participants must pre-register to attend.
The PONI Conference Series is unique in its emphasis on incorporating rising experts and young professionals in the nuclear field. The Conference Series draws emerging thought leaders from across the nuclear enterprise and policy community and provides them with a visible platform for sharing their new thinking on a range of nuclear issues.
All comments made at the conference are off-the-record.
Participants must register for each day separately.
Register for day one here. Register for day 2 here. Register for the social hour here.
DECEMBER 9-10, 2020
All Times EST
9:30 am: Conference Welcome
Rebecca Hersman, Director, Project on Nuclear Issues and Senior Adviser, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
9:45 am: Panel 1 – Nuclear Policy in Asia
Panel Moderator:
Dr. Naoko Aoki, Congressional Fellow and Adjunct Professor at American University
Balancing Deterrence and Stability in U.S. Conventional Missile Deployments in Asia
Eric Gomez, Director, Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute
India’s Evolving Strategic Forces
Tyler Sagerstrom, Research Assistant, South Asia Program, Stimson Center
Open Source Analysis & North Korea’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Jamie Withorne, Research Assistant, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
11:30 am: Keynote Speaker
Discussion and Q&A with Lt. General Scott Kindsvater, Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee moderated by Rebecca Hersman.
1:00 pm: Day 1 End of Presentations
3:00 pm: Social Hour: Pandemics, Polarization, and Presidential Transition: Prioritizing US Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation Goals in a New Era
An informal conversation on agenda-setting in the incoming Biden administration.
4:30 pm: End of Day One
10:00 am: Panel 2 – Emerging Technology and Nuclear Policy: Balancing Risks and Rewards
Panel Moderator:
Dr. Brian Radzinsky, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
New Technical and Geopolitical Realities for the Submarine Deterrent
Leah Walker, Defense Technology Associate, Institute for Security and Technology
Organizational Challenges to AI Adoption: Implications for Strategic Forces
Raymond Wang, Ph.D. Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emerging Tech and the Threat of Proliferation
Chris Meskauskas, Instructor, USAF
11:30 am: Break
11:45 am: Panel 3 – New Perspectives on Arms control, Deterrence, and Disarmament
Panel Moderator:
Dr. Andrew Reddie, Senior Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley
The Conventional Force Perspective: Nuclear Integration In Doctrine, Concepts, and Exercises
Adam Saxton, Research Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Surveys of Superiority: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of the Nuclear Balance
David Logan, PhD Candidate and Fellow, Princeton
Atomic Erasure: Visibility and Inclusion in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Virginia Kerr, Master’s Candidate, Middlebury Institute for International Studies
Citizen Diplomacy: Exploring the impact of track two dialogues on U.S.-Russia arms control agreements
Bernadette Stadler, Master’s Candidate, Harvard University
1:30 pm: Closing Remarks
Eric Brewer, Deputy Director Project on Nuclear Issues and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
This event is made possible by support from Defense Threat Reduction Agency, National Nuclear Security Administration, and Northrop Grumman.