2008 Conference Presentations

U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska

December 2, 2008

Agenda

Panel 1: Maintaining Confidence

• Opportunities and Risks for Future Stockpile Decisions: The Technical Challenge, Malcolm Spence
• Balance of Investment for Nuclear Physics Package Certification, Andrew Randewich
• ICBM Sustainment in the 21st Century, Greg Cameron

Panel 2: Responding to Nuclear Threats

• Technical Nuclear Forensics, Catherine Chen
• Technical and International Considerations for Nuclear Forensics, Brett Isselhardt
• Coordinating Nuclear Defense: Should there be a presidential advisor? Matthew Allen

Panel 3: Deterrence Strategy and Force Requirements

• How Much is Enough: Nuclear Deterrence Then and Now, Keir Lieber
• U.S. Nuclear Posture: Reassessing Requirements for the 21st Century, Daryl Press
• Building an Extended U.S. Nuclear Deterrent for the 21st Century, Darci Bloyer
• Minimum Deterrence, Kristan Stoddart

Panel 4: Defining and Fulfilling the Nuclear Mission

• Nuclear Weapons in 21st Century U.S. National Security, Benn Tannenbaum
• Technical Nuclear Forensics and the Future of the Weapons Laboratories, Jessica Yeats
• Laying the Foundations of Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament: The Role of Verification in Confidence Building, Oliver Welch
• An “All Things Nuclear” Approach to Reducing Global Nuclear Danger, Andrew Walter

Video Teleconference: Science and Technology Challenges for International Safeguards

November 13, 2008

Dr. Mark Schanfein

• Bio
• Background Paper
• Presentation

Atomic Weapons Establishment

October 9-10, 2008
Aldermaston, United Kingdom

Panel 1: Laboratory Missions and Capabilities

• Broadening the Lab Mission to Sustain Nuclear Capabilities, Benn Tannenbaum
• Red Pill or Blue Bill: Maintaining the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent , Francis Slakey
• Ensuring Nuclear Competency at the National Security Science Laboratories, Tom Tierney
• Balance of Investment for Nuclear Physics Package Certification, Andrew Randewich

Panel 2: UK Nuclear Strategy and Posture

• The Case for a “Virtual Nuclear Arsenal” in Britain , David Gill
• What would be the consequences of leaving France as the only nuclear power in Europe? , Richard White

Panel 3: U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture

• Briefing on the United States Strategic Posture Commission, Steve Henry
• Transforming the U.S. Nuclear Posture: A Risk-Based Approach to Capabilities-Based Planning, Amon Tarakemeh
• U.S. Nuclear Posture: Reassessing Roles and Missions in an Age of Enhanced Counterforce , Daryl Press
• Building an Extended U.S. Nuclear Deterrent for the 21st Century , Zachariah Becker and Darci Bloyer

Panel 4: Proliferation Prevention

• Reactive Proliferation: Why Nuclear Dominoes Rarely Fall, Philipp Bleek
• Categorizing Latency: A Tool to Monitor and Control Nuclear Technology Proliferation , Heather Pragnel
• An “All Things Nuclear” Approach to Reducing Global Nuclear Danger , Andrew Walter

Panel 5: Nuclear Forensics

• Nuclear Forensics in the UK: Policy Perspectives and Questions , Oliver Welch
• Technical Constraints in Nuclear Forensics , Brett Isselhardt
• Technical Nuclear Forensics and the Future of the Weapons Laboratories: Modernizing the Mission, Jessica Yeats
• Arms Control Challenges of Nuclear Forensics, Richard Weitz

Panel 6: Deterrenceand Strategy

• How Much is Enough? Nuclear Deterrence Then and Now , Keir Lieber
• Minimum Deterrence, Kristan Stoddart

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore California

June 19 - 20, 2008

Agenda

Panel 1: Nuclear Infrastructure

• Sustainable Rainmaking and the Nuclear Umbrella: Assuring our Allies and Telling the Difficult Truths of Complex, Lani Miyoshi Sanders
• Life Extension or New Design? The Public Debate, Guy Boulby
• Opportunities and Risks for Future Stockpile Decisions: The Technical Challenge, Malcolm Spence
• ICBM Sustainment in the 21st Century, Adam Sadler

Panel 2: Nuclear Terrorism

• The NNSA Nuclear Counterterrorism Program, Matthew Cowan
• Coordinating Nuclear Defense: Should there be a presidential advisor? Matthew Allen

Panel 3: Nuclear Non-Proliferation

• Challenges of Nuclear Nonproliferation in the 21st Century, Michelle Atkinson
• Controlling Proliferation Amidst a Renaissance in Nuclear Power, Derek Smith
• Is Venezuela a Proliferation Threat? Tom Tierney
• Developing Netcentric Approaches to Nonproliferation, Michael Podguski

Panel 4: Assurance and Deterrence Dynamics

• Conveying Assurance of Nuclear Security with Application for Arms Control and Disarmament, Nerayo Teclemariam
• Requirements Optimization for the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Enterprise, Carol Meyers
• Long-term Deterrence and WMD, Jonathan Trexel

Working Lunch

• Stewarding a Reduced Stockpile, Bruce Goodwin

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis Maryland

April 2-3, 2008

Agenda

Panel 1: Nuclear Forensics

• Technical Nuclear Forensics, Catherine Chen
• Locating and Plugging Fissile Material Leaks, Jonathan Snider
• Towards an International Nuclear Forensics Capability, Brett Isselhardt

Panel 2: Nuclear Posture and Infrastructure

• The Future of Nuclear and Conventional Strike: A Risk-based Approach to Capabilities-based Planning, Clint Coo
• Inspiring the Workforce at the National Labs, Ann Lehman Harren
• Nuclear Terrorism: “Soft” Strategies to Counter Perceptual Consequences, Raja Gundu and Patrick Nanson

Panel 3: Proliferation and Disarmament

• Nuclear-Ready Iran, Lisa Farhamy
• Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues, Mary Beth Nikitin
• Laying the Foundations of Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament: The Role of Verification in Confidence Building, Oliver Welch