2012 Conference Presentations

SPRING CONFERENCE

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

April 17-19, 2012

Agenda

Panel 1: Strategies for Controlling Sensitive Nuclear Technology

• Corporations: The Neglected Dimension in Nonproliferation Efforts, Judith Norton
• A Proliferation-Perverse Outcome in the Market for Nuclear Goods, Eleanor Cooper
• Partnership with the Private Sector: Addressing the Illicit Procurement of Proliferation-Sensitive Goods, Daniel Salisbury
• Technical Issues Surrounding the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), Dr. Theodore W. Bowyer

Panel 2: Arms Control and Verification

• Prospective Use of Social Media to Target Information-Driven Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Sean Kreyling, also representing: Laura Schmidt Williams, Kevin Whattaam, Court Corley, Nick Cramer, Zoe Gastelum, Stuart Rose, Eric Bell, Liam McGrath adn Michelle Gregory
• Supporting Arms Control Initiatives with Technology: The Benefits and Challenges of Using Active Monitoring in Support of Verification, Jay Brotz and Justin Fernandez
• Enabling Radiation Imaging Techniqes for Arms Control Verification, Benjamin McDonald

Panel 3: The Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament

• Slaying the Nuclear Dragon: Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century, David Santoro
• Nuclear Deterrence Throughout Disarmament: Reality or Myth?, Alyssa Demus
• Compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: The Case of Iran and Future Implications, Rizwan Ladha
• Inside Indian Nuclear Politics and 21st Century Nonproliferation Initiatives, Casey Mahoney

Keynote Address - 

• A Revolution in Homeland Security Affairs, Warren M. Stern

Panel 4: Fissile Materials and Nuclear Security

• The United Kingdom contribution to the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, Seoul, South Korea, Kane Pollard
• Technical Cooperation with India and Pakistan as a Confidence-Building and Transparency Measure for Fissile Material Control, Laura Schmidt Williams, also representing: Paul Booker, Jana Fankhauser, Travis Gitau, Ron Omberg, Chris Toomey, and Ned Wogman
• Assessing the Significance of States Possessing Radiological Weapons, Nathan Donohue

Panel 5: U.S.-Russia Nuclear Cooperation and Arms Control

• Impact of Epistemic Communities on US-Russian Nuclear Cooperation, Michelle Dover
• The CFE Treaty and the future of Russian bilateral/multilateral arms control, Maschenka Braganca
• US-Russian Nuclear Cooperation: Decreasing the threat of nonproliferation and improving relations, Wesley Neuman
• The Science Behind Modern Day Nuclear Forensic Analysis: Definition, Importance, and Example, Dr. Jon M. Schwantes

SUMMER CONFERENCE

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

June 26 – 28, 2012

Agenda

Panel 1: Pathways and Obstacles to Lower Numbers  

• The Future of the Triad, Fiscal Austerity, and the Vision of Nuclear Zero, Michaela Bendikova
• Bioweapons: Impediment on the Road to Zero?, Eli Jacobs
• Towards a Treaty Banning Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons, Crispin Rovere

Panel 2: Nuclear Weapons and Strategic Stability in Europe

• Trident: A Nuclear Fork in the Road, Matthew Fargo
• The Evolution of NATO: A Collective Defense or Collective Security Organization? Ariana Rowberry

Panel 3: New Tools and Methods for Nonproliferation

• Prioritizing Acquisition Pathways in the State Level Concept, Chantell Murphy
• Cyber Capacity and Counterproliferation: Determining a Cyber Command and Control Structure for Covert Counterproliferation Action, Christopher Conklin
• Development of a reliable fuel depletion methodology for the HTR-10 spent fuel analysis, Kiwhan Chung, also representing: David H. Beddingfield, William H. Geist, and Sang-Yoon Lee

Keynote Address -

• Ms. Elaine Bunn

Panel 4: Nuclear Security in the 21^st Century  

• Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Progress on the Four-Year Effort and Next Steps, Eben Harrell, 
• The United Kingdom Efforts on Global Nuclear Threat Reduction, Craig Andrew
• Changing Guardians: Options for Negotiating the FMCT Outside the Conference on Disarmament, Andrea Berger
• A History of Folly: How the India and UAE Nuclear Deals Make the Case for a Greater Public-Private Partnership in Nuclear Security, Brad Simmons

Panel 5: The Nonproliferation Hard Cases

• A Bird’s Eye View of North Korea’s Nuclear Program, Niko Milonopoulos
• Pakistan 2014: from Paradigm Shift to Paradox, Egle Murauskaite
• Will Growing Latent Nuclear Weapons Capabilities Derail a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone? Ryan Vigneux

Keynote Address -

• Perilous Precedents: Proliferation as Strategy in a Proliferating World, Dr. Christopher Ford

FALL CONFERENCE

Center for Strategic & International Studies, DC
October 18 - 19, 2012
Agenda

Panel 1: US-Russia Nuclear Relations & Arms Reductions

• Analyzing and Reducing the Risks of Inadvertent Nuclear War between the United States and Russia, Dr. Anthony Barrett
• Conventional Roadblocks: Impacts on U.S.-Russian Stockpile Reductions, Alexis Blanc
• Is New START a prelude to what’s to come?, Blake Narendra
• Breaking the ‘tactical’ nuclear deadlock, Wilbert van der Zeijden

Panel 2: Global Nuclear Security

• Putting the R in 1540, Enrico Fiorentini
• Achieving Disarmament and Permanent Threat Reduction by Eliminating Nuclear Materials, Casey Deering

Keynote Address

• Dr. Bradley H. Roberts

Panel 3: Managing the Proliferation Risks of Nuclear Energy

• Predicting Nuclear Energy Attainment, Peter Hendrickson
• Back to the Future?: Internationalizing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Lisa Bergstrom
• The Article IV Debate: Surveying the Normative Landscape, Lindsay Kreslake

Panel 4: Strategies for Dealing with Iranian Nuclearization

• Containing Iran: Why the Taboo Strategies of Engagement and Containment Are the Right Ones, Dr. Robert Reardon
• Legal Dilemmas: Iran’s Nuclear Program and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Tom Coppen
• The Evolution of Iran’s Religious Nuclear Discourse and Its Policy Implications, Ariane Tabatabai
• Back to the origins: contextualizing the E3/EU3 framework to curb the Iranian nuclear ambitions, Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi

Panel 5: New Challenges & Perspectives in International Nonproliferation

• The 2012 WMD free zone Conference, a challenge for the NPT, Raphaelle Mathiot
• United States Non-Proliferation Policy, a normative approach, Samuel Myers
• Thought Experiment: Reimagining AP Implementation for Argentina and Brazil, Maria Lovely Umayam
• Reconceptualising India’s Role in a New International Arms Control Regime, Dr. Rupakjyoti  Borah

Panel 6: 21st Century Deterrence & Strategic Stability

• Missile Defense in the 21st Century: Technical Efficacy and Deterrence, Eric Auner
• The Intrinsic Value of the TRIAD, Rachelle Smith
• Balance of Power: the Lynchpin of Contemporary Strategic Stability, Dean Ensley

Keynote Address            

• Seeking Consensus: Lessons of the START Debate, Dr. Janne Nolan

CAPSTONE CONFERENCE

Offutt AFB, Nebraska
March 19, 2013

Agenda

Panel 1: Pathways and Obstacles to Future Arms Control and Lower Numbers

• “Conventional” Roadblocks: Impacts on U.S.-Russian Stockpile Reductions, Alexis Blanc
• Bioweapons: Impediment on the Road to Zero?, Eli Jacobs
• Breaking the 'tactical' nuclear deadlock, Wilbert van der Zeijden
• Supporting Arms Control Initiatives with Technology: The Benefits and Challenges of using Active monitoring in support of verification, Jay Brotz

Panel 2: Fissile Materials and Nuclear Security

• Achieving Disarmament and Permanent Threat Reduction By Eliminating Nuclear Materials, Casey Deering
• Changing Guardians: Options for Negotiating the FMCT Outside the Conference on Disarmament, Andrea Berger
• Technical Cooperation with India and Pakistan as a Confidence-Building and Transparency Measure, Laura Schmidt Denlinger
• Assessing the Significance of States Possessing Radiological Weapons, Nathan Donohue

Panel 3: 21^st Century Deterrence and Strategic Stability

• Missile Defense in the 21st Century: Technical Efficacy and Deterrence, Eric Auner
• The Intrinsic Value of the TRIAD, Rachelle Smith
• The Future of Strategic Stability in Europe, Matthew Fargo
• The Growth of an Indian Nuclear Navy, Jake Thompson

Lunch Keynote, Dr. John Hamre, President and CEO, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Panel 4: The Findings of the PONI Working Group on U.S.-China Nuclear Dynamics, Elbridge Colby and Abraham Denmark

Panel 5: Nonproliferation Hard Cases and the Future of the NPT

• Containing Iran: Why the Taboo Strategies of Engagement and Containment are the Right Ones, Robert Reardon
• Legal Dilemmas: Iran's Nuclear Program and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Tom Coppen
• A Bird's Eye View of North Korea's Nuclear Program, Niko Milonopoulos
• Pakistan 2014: Understanding Proliferation Challenges, Egle Murauskaite

Panel 6: New Tools and Prespectives in Nonproliferation

• Prioritizing Acquisition Pathways in the State Level Concept, Chantell Murphy
• Partnership with the Private Sector: Addressing the Illicit Procurement of Proliferation-Sensitive Goods, Daniel Salisbury
• The Article IV Debate: Surveying the Normative Landscape, Lindsay Kreslake

Evening Keynote, General Robert Kehler, Commander, United States Strategic Command