PONI 2011 Summer Conference

On July 7 - 8, the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) hosted its 2011 Summer Conference. The event featured two days of panel discussions highlighting new thinking by rising experts in the field on key issues in nuclear science, policy and strategy. Keynote speakers for the event included Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance; Michael Elliott, SES, Deputy Director for Strategic Stability, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J5), Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Linton Brooks, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Presentation Panels

Panel 1 - State Calculations on Acquiring Nuclear Weapons

• Red Lines in Coercive Nonproliferation, Daniel Altman
• Military Tradeoffs as a Constraint on Nucler Acuisition, Gene Gerzhoy
• Japan's Nuclear Hedging, Jithin George
• Iran's Nuclear Strategy: Understanding Tehran's Acquisition Pathway, Patrick Disney

Panel 2 - U.S.-Russia Engagement on Nuclear Policy

• Contextualizing and Engaging Russian Nuclear Policy, Alejandro Sueldo
• Challenges in U.S.-Russia Nonproliferation and Disarmament Initiatives, Kate Svyatets
• From START to Finish? Houston John Goodell

Panel 3 - Strategic Stability 1: Key Issues for U.S. Policymakers

• U.S. Extended Deterrence to South Korea and North Korea's Unusual Belligerence, Sungmin Cho
• Revisiting the Security/Insecurity Paradox in a Sino-American Context: The Challenge of a Bilateral Dialog on Strategic Stability, Jean-Loup Samaan
• Why we Should Study Developing Nuclear Earth Penetrators - And Why They are Actually Stabilizing, Elbridge Colby

Panel 4 - Strategic Stability 2: South Asia Dynamics

• Stability in South Asia: The Nuclear-Conventional Intersection, Vipin Narang
• China, India, and Cruise Missiles, Kalyan M. Kemburi

Panel 5 - Examining the Legal Instruments of Nonproliferation and Arms Control

• Superpower Collusion and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Jane Vaynman
• Disarmament Under the NPT: Article VI in the 21st Century, Paul Kiernan
• Negotiating Divorce: Withdrawing from Arms Control Treaties, Thomas Schafbuch

Panel 6 - Preventing Proliferation While Meeting Nuclear Energy Demands

• The Next Generation of 123 Agreements, Laura Berzak
• Transnational Networks and Nonproliferation: Strengthening the Multilateral Nuclear Export Control Regime, Michael M. Lieberman
• Countering Proliferation Finance: An Essential but Undervalued Compnent of the Nonproliferation Regime, Javier Serrat

Panel 7 - New Tools and Methods for Arms Control and Nonproliferation

• Nuclear Ionization Quenching Measurement in a Duel-Phase Argon Detector, Michael Foxe
• Institutionalizing Commitment Tracking in the Nuclear Security Summit Process, Sarah Williams
• A Proof-of-Concept Game Theoretic Model for Optimal Inspection Strategy Determination, Rebecca Ward