PONI 2025 Virtual Winter Conference
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The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) will host its 2025 Virtual Winter Conference on February 11. The theme of this conference is “Strengthening U.S. Alliances and Partnerships,” with presentations related to bolstering the resilience of U.S. alliances and partnerships in the face of challenges posed by two-peer competition, adversarial cooperation, and threats to stability in multiple regions.
The conference will feature a keynote presentation from NATO Assistant Secretary General Angus Lapsley.
To register to attend this conference, please click the "Register" button below.
Why Attend?
The PONI Conference Series is unique in its focus on rising experts and young professionals in the nuclear field. The Conference Series draws emerging thought leaders from across the nuclear enterprise and provides them with a visible platform for sharing their thinking on a range of nuclear issues.
PONI conferences provide excellent opportunities for rising professionals to present and receive feedback on their research from a diverse group of experts and stakeholders in the nuclear community. Our conferences are also great opportunities to build connections with academics, national lab representatives, military officials, policymakers, and industry representatives across the nuclear enterprise.
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and U.S. national nuclear laboratories
Conference Agenda
Opening Remarks
Heather Williams, Director, Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
Strategic Vision for NATO and Allied Perspectives
Moderator: Matt Korda, Associate Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists
Rintaro Inoue, Opportunities and Constraints in Expanding NATO-IP4 Cooperation
Molly Grace Doyle, Assessing NATO’s Nuclear Cohesion: The Impact of Russia’s Aggression on Alliance Discourse, Knowledge, and Deterrence
Hyunseung Yu, Strengthening ROK-NATO Partnership
John William Sutcliffe IV, French Vital Interests in Europe: The Historical Foundations of a Strategic Dialogue
Break
Keynote
Angus Lapsley, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning
Discussion Moderator: Dr. Heather Williams, Director, Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
Prospects for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at a Crossroads
Moderator: April Arnold, Founder, True North Risk
Kai O'Neill Phillips, Strategic Culture and Nuclear Proliferation in South Korea
Brandt K. Mabuni, Allied Latency: Bigger, Better, Faster than Ever
Nour Eid, US-Saudi Relations: From Partners to Allies? The United States' Opportunity to Avoid Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East
Claire Williams, U.S. Nuclear Security in Space: Preparing for the End of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty
Break
Challenges and Opportunities in a Two-Near-Peer Environment
Moderator: David Minchin Allison, Fellow, Nuclear Security Program, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale
Vhaire Gudgeon, Perceptions of Ocean Transparency: the Strategic Stability of the UK Nuclear Deterrent
Paul Cormarie, Can the United Kingdom and France Deter China?
Zoey Young, Lips and Teeth: How the U.S., Republic of Korea, and Japan can wedge distance between China and North Korea
Linde Desmaele, US Security Assurances in a Tripolar Nuclear World: Challenges and Way Forward
Closing Remarks
Heather Williams, Director, Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
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Contact Information
- Bailey Schiff
- Program Coordinator and Research Assistant, Project on Nuclear Issues
- bschiff@csis.org
- Elizabeth Kos
- Program Manager and Research Associate, Project on Nuclear Issues
- ekos@csis.org
