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2013
- Scientists at Semipalatinsk: One of the Greatest Nonproliferation Stories Never Told | Q&A Session
Dr. Sigfried Hecker, research professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. - Assessment of New Disarmament Initiatives
Ambassador Alexander Kmentt, Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. - Syria’s WMD program in a Regional Context | Q&A Session
Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, San Marcos - Win-Win Nonproliferation Solutions for Expanding Nuclear Power
Cheryl Rofer, Retired Chemist, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Founder of Nuclear Diner (http://nucleardiner.com) - The National Laboratories: What’s Next? | Q&A Session
Dr. Richard Stulen, Recently Retired Vice President of Sandia National Laboratories - Xichang Space Launch Center – China
3D model of this site created for the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Video credits: Einar Engvig, Melissa Hanham, Jason Hernandez, Eduardo Fujii and Jessica Varnum. - Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground – North Korea
3D model of this site created for the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Video credits: Einar Engvig, Melissa Hanham, Jason Hernandez, Eduardo Fujii and Jessica Varnum. - Yongbyon 5MWe Reactor – North Korea
3D model of this site created for the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Video credits: Melissa Hanham, Matthew Johnston, Eduardo Fujii and Jessica Varnum. - Why Russia Matters to the United States
Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment, the Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, and the Chair of its Foreign and Security Policy Program. - A History of WMDs
Amy Smithson and Yousaf Butt for HuffPost Live. - A Russian Assessment of Next Steps in Nuclear Arms Control: Ballistic Missile Defense and Tactical Nuclear Weapons | Q&A Session
General Vladimir Dvorkin, senior scientist, Center of International Security at the Institute of Economic and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences. - Globalizing Reagan’s INF Treaty: Easier Done Than Said? | Q&A Session
David A. Cooper, Professor and Chair of the National Security Affairs Department, US Naval War College and Nonproliferation Review author Nikolai Sokov, Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation - Sohae Satellite Launching Station – North Korea
3D model of North Korea’s newest ballistic missile and space vehicle launch site created for the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Video credits: Melissa Hanham, Eduardo Fujii and Jessica Varnum. - Yongbyon Experimental 25-30 MWe Light Water Reactor – North Korea
3D model of the construction of North Korea’s light water reactor at Yongbyon created for the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Video credits: Melissa Hanham, Eduardo Fujii and Jessica Varnum. - Dr. Siegfried Hecker on North Korean Nuclear Facilities
Dr. Siegfried Hecker, Visiting Distinguished Scientist at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP), and one of the world’s leading nuclear scientists, speaks with CNN‘s Christiane Amanpour. - The UK’s Nuclear Deterrent and the Scottish Referendum
William Walker, Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews - Al-Asad’s Toxic Deterrent: Would Damascus Deploy Chemical Weapons during the Syrian Civil War? | Q&A Session
Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, San Marcos - US Expert Questions Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Miles Pomper spoke at a UN disarmament conference in the Japanese city of Shizuoka. Nuclear security was one of the themes discussed on the second day of the meeting.
- In My Lifetime
Directed by former ABC network news executive producer, Robert E. Frye, In My Lifetime provides a comprehensive look at the full scope and impact of the nuclear age from its beginnings to the present day, including the international efforts by citizens, scientists and political leaders to reduce or eliminate the nuclear threat. - Three Dilemmas of Today’s Russian Foreign and Security Policy | Q&A Session
Dr. Vladimir Orlov, Founder and President of PIR Center for Policy Studies (Moscow), Editor-in-Chief of Security Index Journal and President of the Centre russe d’etudes politiques — PIR Center’s European branch. - UN Secretary-General Delivers Major Address at MIIS | Transcript
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lauds the role played by the Monterey Institute in promoting Disarmament and Nonproliferation Education. - Breaking the Gridlock with the DPRK (North Korea) | Q&A Session
Ambassador James Goodby, Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on November 29, 2012. - Multilateral Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Initiatives | Q&A Session
Professor Michael Hamel-Green, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia - Serious Rules for Nuclear Power without Proliferation | Q&A Session
Arguing that U.S. policies promoting the global expansion of civilian nuclear energy are not matched by corresponding effort to assure nonproliferation, Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and Victor Gilinsky, former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, propose several nonproliferation principles for correcting the mismatch. They also identify modest, initial steps that can be taken now to promote such a correction.
2012
- Preventing Syrian Chemical Threat From Becoming Reality
Leonard S. Spector was interviewed on PBS NewsHour. - Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb | Q&A Session
Brigadier General (retired) Feroz H. Khan is a lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. - Lessons from Fukushima and the Future of Japanese Nuclear Energy | Q&A Session
Nobumasa Akiyama, Professor at the Graduate School of Law and the Graduate School of International Public Policy at Hitotsubashi University, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Japan Institute of International Affairs - The Nuclear Security Summit Seoul 2012
Anthony Thomas, CBRNE Terrorism Prevention Programme Manager at INTERPOL in Lyon, France - Leading By Example: U.S. Nonproliferation Policy and Global Security Engagement (Part 1) | Part 2
Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State - The Future of the Nuclear Security Summit Process: A Danish Perspective?
Ambassador John Bernhard, Former Danish Permanent Representative to the IAEA - Indefensible Missile Defense
Dr. Yousaf Butt, CNS Scientist-in-Residence, Adjunct Professor - The Future of the CTBT Post 2012 | Q&A Session
Jean du Preez, CTBTO Preparatory Commission’s Chief of External Relations and International Cooperation - How Risky is Nuclear Optimism? | Q&A Session
Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University - Miles Pomper on Middle East Security
Miles Pomper spoke on difficulties of extended deterrence in the Middle East, at event organized by Potomac Institute at the National Press Club. - Fears Mount Over Assad’s Stockpiles of Chemical Weapons
Leonard S. Spector, was interviewed on the PBS NewsHour - Chemical Weapons in Syria
Bilal Saab, CNS Visiting Fellow, interviewed on Canada Sun News - Miles Pomper testimony before Canada’s Special Senate Committee on Anti-terrorism
Canada’s 41st Parliament is studying Bill S-9, the Nuclear Terrorism Act, with provisions that prohibit certain activities in relation to nuclear or radioactive material or devices. Mr. Pomper focused on two areas: How Bill S-9 compares with similar legislation being considered by the U.S. Congress and the importance of advancing treaties bolstering global nuclear security efforts. - The 2012 NPT PrepCom: Calm Before the Storm?
Over 20 present and past CNS students and staff members participated in the NPT PrepCom. CNS roundtable discussion panelists (including Dr. William Potter, CNS Director, Aruni Wijewardane, IONP Director, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, Research Associate, and Lovely Umayan, Graduate Research Assistant) summarize major developments at the conference. - Unending Crisis: National Security Policy after 9/11
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., former senior-level diplomat and a world-renowned authority on nuclear nonproliferation. As a U.S. diplomat, Ambassador Graham was involved in the negotiation of every major arms control and nonproliferation agreement from 1970 to 1997, including START, SALT, the CTBT, the INF Treaty, and the ABM Treaty, among many others. - A Look at Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament
Jon Wolfthal spoke at an Arms Control Association meeting on CSPAN 2. - Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Abolition
Philip Taubman, author of the book The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb, and former Moscow and Washington bureau chief of The New York Times - Pragmatism, Nuclear Weapons and Myth
Ward Wilson, CNS Senior Fellow and Princeton-based nuclear weapons policy analyst and award-winning writer gives a preview of his forthcoming book. - No Such Thing As A Free Lunch: A ‘User Pays’ Model of International Nuclear Risk Mitigation
Lyndon Burford, PhD Candidate in Political Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and joint winner of the 2011 CNS McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge. - Germ Gambits: The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond
Dr. Amy Smithson, CNS Senior Fellow, highlights the contents of her book, Germ Gambits: The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond. She talks about UNSCOM Iraq inspections, the hunt for proof, Iraq’s cover stories and confessions and lessons learned. - A Year Into Syria’s Uprising: Assessing Regional and International Security Risks
Bilal Saab, CNS Visiting Fellow, talks about the uprising in Syria and the challenges the international security community faces in trying to resolve the conflict. - The Iranian Crisis: Is War Inevitable?
Avner Cohen was part of a panel discussion at the University of California, Berkeley whose speakers also included Karim Sadjadpour and Shibley Telhami. - What Role Should The OPCW Play in a Multi-Agency Response to Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons?
Speaker H.E. Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Also, his Chief of Cabinet, Bob Fairweather, on lessons learned from recent experiences working with Libya.
Video updated - Was Robert Oppenheimer a Communist Spy? Soviet Atomic Espionage on the West Coast
Professor Gregg Herken was a guest speaker in the Monterey Institute’s seminar “Nuclear Weapons and Intelligence”. Professor Herken is a professor emeritus of history and a member of the founding faculty of the University of California, Merced. Before his move to Merced, Gregg Herken was the Chairman of Dept. of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. - Deterring CBRN Terrorism: Lessons from Iraq
Fred Wehling, Associate Professor and Program Chair for Nonproliferation Studies at MIIS, analyses the reasons why attacks involving improvised explosive devices containing chlorine stopped suddenly after June 2007. Was there any indication that insurgents achieved their objectives or were stopped by coalition forces or perhaps by public opinion? - Bilal Saab on Rebel Advances in Syria
Bilal Saab, CNS Visiting Fellow, is interviewed by the BBC. - Deterring Terrorism: An Evaluation of Post-9/11 Research
Dr. Jeffrey Knopf, senior lecturer in national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, shares his review of recent research on deterring terrorism. - Nikolai Sokov on CTV National News: Russia’s Fatal Past
Nikolai Sokov, VCDNP Senior Fellow, is interviewed by CTV. - UK-Norway Verification Experiments: New Developments and the Role of Education
Hakon E. Sommerset, Senior Advisor for the Norwegian Ministry of Defense and Hubert K. Foy, Visiting Fellow at the Technical Nonproliferation and Disarmament Project, University of Oslo, Norway, talk about their participation in a UK-Norway simulation exercise involving verification of nuclear weapons dismantlement. - Energy and Security in East Asia After Fukushima
Peter Hayes, Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, talks about the implications of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the rest of East Asia. - Bilal Saab on BBC discussing Syria
Bilal Saab, CNS Visiting Fellow, is interviewed by the BBC about events in Syria and the role of the Arab League observer mission.
2011
- Nuclear Fuel Banks: Are They a Reality? | Q&A Session
Alan Hanson, visiting scholar at CISAC, Stanford University - Maoist China’s Place in Global Nuclear History
Nicola Horsburgh, CNS Pre-doctoral Fellow - The Currency of Power: Nuclear Weapons and the Fetishism of Force
Dr. Anne Harrington, CNS Postdoctoral Research Fellow - A New Framework for Nuclear Negotiations
Ambassador James Goodby, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution - Assad’s Story is Not Believable
Bilal Saab, CNS Visiting Fellow, is interviewed by the BBC about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s recent Barbara Walters interview. - The Long-term Impact of Fukushima on Nuclear Safety and Security
Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research - Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Last Warning?
Leonard S. Spector, spoke at a Potomac Institute panel discussion on the failure of current measures to halt Iran’s progress, possible steps forward, and the potential danger of powerful and repeated covert actions. - To Attack or Not To Attack: The Israeli Dilemma on Iran | Q&A Session
For the past two weeks, something unprecedented has been occurring in Israel: an open public debate on the Israeli dilemma about Iran: to attack or not to attack. Avner Cohen, CNS Senior Fellow, presents the pros and cons, analyses the consequences of the attack itself and raises the question whether or not an attack would be effective.
Supporting sources:
Ehud Barak on Charlie Rose
Israel Debates Strike Against Iran
Shimon Peres on Piers Morgan
See also: Israel’s Iran dilemma, Avner Cohen for Haaretz. - Bilal Saab on BBC discussing Syria
Bilal Saab, CNS Visiting Fellow, is interviewed about Syria by the BBC. - Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation
Jacques E. C. Hymans explains why at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have generally needed far more time than expected, despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge. - Arms Control Verification Technology: A View from the Trenches
Dr. John S. Luke, Senior Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides a perspective for verification in arms control from the point of view of a scientist. - Space Security and National Security
Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy - Progress Towards Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Entry-Into-Force
Jean du Preez, Chief of External Relations and International Cooperation, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) - Building Budgetary Transparency and Accountability for the US Nuclear Weapons Program
Stephen Schwartz, Editor of the The Nonproliferation Review. - Using Geospatial Analysis Tools for Nonproliferation Research
Tamara Patton, Graduate Research Assistant at CNS discusses how to construct accurate digital 3D models of buildings, such as reactors, using only aerial satellite imagery and shadow measurement techniques in Google SketchUp and Google Earth.
See also: In 3D: Tamara Patton Models Pakistan’s Khushab Plutonium Production Complex Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Rose Gottemoeller, in a speech at Stanford, praised CNS Graduate Research Assistant Tamara Patton, for her outstanding work modeling the Khushab complex. This is Tamara’s honor’s thesis, using images supplied by GeoEye Foundation. - Biological Warfare in the American Civil War
Dr. Seth Carus, Director, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. - Testing the Swedish Nuclear Weapons Program Against IR Theories | Q&A Session
Dr. Thomas Jonter, Professor in International Relations at Stockholm University, shares his findings on why Sweden’s active nuclear weapons program abstained from building an atomic bomb. - American, Chinese, and Russian High School Students Discuss Solutions to Nuclear Challenges in the Middle East
The semester-long CIF program concluded with a successful students conference on April 28-29 in Monterey where students from three countries presented their findings on nuclear issues in the Middle East. - Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Miles Pomper spoke at the Asan Institute in Seoul, South Korea on May 11, 2011. - The Potential for Regulating Synthetic Biology as a Means to Curb Biological Weapons
Dr. Alexander Kelle, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Director of Postgraduate Taught Programs at the University of Bath Claverton Down, talks about reasons why we should be worried about synthetic biology and what regulation or governance might look like. - The Middle East: Why Safeguards May Not Be Enough
Dr. Patricia Lewis provides ideas for moving forward with the establishment of a nuclear weapon free zone in the Middle East. - Dr. William Perry: A Nuclear Weapons Free World?
Dr. William Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, was the keynote speaker at a workshop entitled, “Preparing for Nuclear arms Reductions, Technical Transparency and Monitoring Challenges,” held on May 5, 2011. - Enduring Partnerships: is corruption now Afghanistan’s main battlefield?
Sharad Joshi was interviewed by NATO Review on corruption in Afghanistan. - States Demand Nuclear Waste Reform
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis was interviewed on CBS News. - Radiation Scare in Japan
Stephen I. Schwartz was interviewed on Chicago Tonight.
See also: Earthquake Damages Nuclear Reactors in Japan – CNS Experts Available for Comment - Part 1: Solutions to Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
Part 2: Lessons Learned From the Nuclear Crisis in Japan
Stephen I. Schwartz was interviewed by Lou Dobbs on Fox Business. - Arms, Disarmament, and Influence: International Responses to the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review
Scott D. Sagan, The Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science - Verifying Nuclear Disarmament: What Can Science Contribute and Where Are The Limitations | Q&A Session
Malte Göttsche, Research Assistant, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre for Science and Peace Research at the University of Hamburg - The Future of Nuclear Power
Stephen I. Schwartz was interviewed on Fox Business. - International Law and the Threat of Force
Leonard Spector speaks on nonproliferation cases involving threats to use force, as member of Washington Program on Nonproliferation Policy and Law panel. - Three Dimensionality in Chinese Views on India and Space | Q&A session
Dr. Lora Saalman, Monterey Institute alumna and Associate at Carnegie-Tsinghua for Global Policy, shares with students the findings of her research on how China’s views towards India and space have changed over time. - Conversations with History – Avner Cohen
Avner Cohen speaks wih Harry Kreisler about his new book The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb.
Also view the UC Berkely page for this event - Nuclear Security Culture: Concept, Implementation, and Evaluation | Q&A session
Dr. Igor Khripunov, Senior Research Associate and Adjunct Professor Center for International Trade and Security School of Public and International Affairs University of Georgia. - The Future of Sino-U.S. Nuclear Relations | Q&A session
Ambassador Linton Brooks discusses the future of U.S. and China nuclear relations from a practitioner point of view. - Running the World: How Presidents have Used (or Misused!) the National Security Council | Q&A session
Dr. Ty Cobb, Former NSC Member and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. - Nuclear Islands: International Leasing of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Sites To Provide Enduring Assurance of Peaceful Use
Commentary | Q&A session
Presentations by Nonproliferation Review authors Christopher E. Paine and Thomas B. Cochran, with commentary by Lawrence Scheinman and Sharon Squassoni. - Stable at Zero: Why a World Without Nuclear Weapons Would Be Safer Than Most People Think
Ward Wilson, CNS Senior Fellow, casts doubts on the belief that nuclear weapons are important for national security.
2010
- Smuggling in Radiological and Nuclear Materials via Georgia | Q&A session
Alexandre Kukhianidze, CNS Visiting Fellow. - Goldilocks’ Quest: Understanding the Rationality of Terrorist Violence | Q&A session
Dr. Michael Freeman, Assistant Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School. - Fifty Years of Arms Control Negotiating Experience | Q&A session
Ambassador James Goodby looks back at some of his experience as negotiator and talks about the lessons he learned during his distinguished career. - The Future of U.S.-Russia Arms Control | Q&A session
Ambassador Linton Brooks discusses the future of U.S.-Russia arms control. - U.S. Export Controls | Q&A session
Gene Christiansen Senior Aerospace Engineer Bureau of Industry and Security U.S. Department of Commerce. - President Chavez’s Deal to Acquire Russian Nuclear Reactors [In Spanish] Miles Pomper was interviewed on “Foro Interamericano” on VOA-TV.
- The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb
Avner Cohen discussed his latest book, with commentary by: Morton Halperin, Samuel W. Lewis, and Bruce Riedel.
See also: Event Photos - Turkey’s Nuclear Future: A View from Ankara | Q&A session
Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu, Professor, International Relations Department Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. - 30 Years after Iran-Iraq War: Counterproliferation Lessons | Q&A session
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Marashi talks about factors of the Iran-Iraq war that are relevant to policy makers concerned with WMDs today. - Corruption: A Central Enabling Factor in Nuclear Proliferation | Q&A session
Dr. Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and author of “Securing the Bomb” on August 25, 2010. - The 2010 NPT Review Conference – Insider Observations
The 2010 NPT RevCon took place in New York on May 3-28, 2010. CNS experts give a first-hand account and analysis of the events that unfolded in New York, in a panel discussion held on June 15, 2010, in Monterey, CA. Speakers: William Potter, Patricia Lewis, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, and Sean Dunlop. - The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
David Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize winner, shares his research for his book at a CNS Washington D.C. office seminar on May 11, 2010. The event was moderated by Amy E. Smithson.
CNS 20th Anniversary Videos: Power and Promise of Nonproliferation Education and Training
For more, Visit the CNS 20th Anniversary Page
- Reception for MIIS/CNS Alumni
Dr. William Potter, CNS Director and Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) President Sunder Ramaswamy welcome current students and alumni to the CNS 20th Anniversary Alumni Reception. - The Role of Foundations, NGOs, and the Media (Full Session)
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, the Honorable Charles Curtis, and Leonard Spector, discuss the role of foundations, NGOs, and the media in public education. - Watch Jeffrey Lewis excerpt
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. - Watch Charles Curtis excerpt
Honorable Charles Curtis, President and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). - Watch Leonard Spector excerpt
Leonard Spector, Director of the CNS Washington, D.C. office.
- Russian-Iranian Relations: The Energy Factor
Dr. Brenda Shaffer, School of Political Science and Department of Asian Studies University of Haifa, explains Russian position in dealing with Iran from an energy perspective. Russia, as the largest producer of natural gas in the world, wants to maintain its dominance in the European gas market and keep Iran in a box to avoid competition. - BioPortal and Its Value for International and Local Disease Surveillance | Q&A Session
Michael Ascher, MD, Senior Medical Advisor to the California Emergency Management Agency; Professor at University of California, Davis. - Dual Use Research: A Dialogue
Jonathan B. Tucker was one of several experts interviewed for a new educational video on dual-use research in the life sciences prepared by the National Institutes of Health. - Iran Sanctions and the Brazil-Turkey Deal [SPANISH]
Miles A. Pomper interviewed on Russia Today TV (in Spanish) regarding the draft Iran sanctions resolution in Security Council and the Brazil-Iran-Turkey deal. Originally aired on May 18, 2010. - Life at 40: A New Chance for the NPT?
Dr. Patricia Lewis highlights successes and failures during the past 40 years, current challenges, and future prospects for the NPT. - Leonard S. Spector comments on NPT Meeting for PBS NewsHour
Leonard S. Spector, in the segment “Iran Draws Western Criticism at Opening of UN Nuclear Talks” on PBS NewsHour. - On the Relationship Between Disarmament and Nonproliferation
Dr. Sverre Lodgaard, Senior Scholar in Residence at CNS and former director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), presents his analysis on the relationship between disarmament and nonproliferation at a luncheon seminar on March 18, 2010. - A World Without Nuclear Weapons
Joe Cirincione invites you to join us in the fight to end the nuclear weapons threat. Watch this video and then, says Joe, “Start something powerful!” - China and Arms Control: New Ideas or More of the Same? | Q&A Session
Dr. Bates Gill shares his insights and analysis on key issue areas where China and Norway have common interests, in particular, their approach to the global arms control and nonproliferation agenda. February 19, 2010. - Lost in Implementation? China, the US, and the Politics of WMD Nonproliferation | Q&A Session
Dr. Jing-Dong Yuan, Director of the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program. February 16, 2010. - Dr. Patricia Lewis on the Dangerous Nuclear Legacy of the Cold War
Dr. Patricia Lewis interviewed in TalkWorks Films 2010: Prominent experts and policy makers talk about President Obama’s global nuclear disarmament initiative.
2009
- President Obama’s Peace Prize
Johan Bergenäs interviewed by Al Jazeera English on President Obama’s peace prize. - Prospects for a START Replacement Treaty: Ambassador Linton Brooks
Ambassador Linton Brooks talks about the prospects for a START replacement treaty, on October 15, 2009. - The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
David Hoffman, Assistant Managing Editor for Foreign News at The Washington Post, on October 13, 2009. - Part 1: James Goodby U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Negotiations · Also watch Part 2
On September 24, 2009, Ambassador James Goodby, Hoover Institution, Stanford University is a guest lecturer at the “U.S.-Russian START Plus Arms Control Simulation” at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ambassador Goodby talks about his involvement with various U.S.-Russian nuclear negotiations, including the Start I treaty between 1981 and 1983, and the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program. The class, taught by Dr. William Potter, CNS Director, is a simulation of U.S.-Russian strategic arms reduction talks. Students assume the role of U.S. and Russian arms control officials in charge of negotiating a follow-up accord to the current START Treaty which will expire in December 2009. - Independent Task Force Report on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
On September 29, 2009, Dr. Charles Ferguson, Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, presents findings and recommendations of an independent study sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations on U.S. nuclear weapons policy. - Book Launch: International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
On September 16, 2009, CNS and the Georgetown University Institute for International Law and Politics, as part of their joint Project on Nonproliferation Policy and Law, hosted a book launch event for “International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.” (Oxford University Press, 2009) - About U.S. – Russian Relations: A Conversation with Sergei Kislyak
Dr. William Potter, director of CNS talks with the ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, about U.S.-Russian relations, including prospects for nuclear arms control, NATO expansion, and the Iranian nuclear program. - Prospects for Reducing U.S. and Russian Non Strategic Nuclear Weapons | Q&A Session
Miles Pomper, Senior Research Associate. - Gernot Erler on Nuclear Policy, CNS Study | Q&A Session At a CNS seminar, German Federal Foreign Office Minister of State, Gernot Erler reviewed Germany’s disarmament and nonproliferation policies and introduced a major study by CNS entitled Four Emerging Issues in Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation: Opportunities for German Leadership.
- President Obama is in Front of His Advisors · [4 min, nhk.or.jp] William Potter, CNS Director, was interviewed on the website “No More Hibakusha” by NHK.
- Only Presidents Can Push START Through
William Potter, CNS Director, was interviewed on Russia Today.
The absolute key to a successful negotiation is presidential intervention. - Obama is Serious About Disarmament
William Potter, CNS Director, was interviewed on Russia Today.
Obama’s upcoming visit to Moscow could likely result in an agreement between Moscow and Washington. - Asia Pacific Regional Nuclear Fuel Cycle Approach
University of Tokyo Professors Jor-Shan Choi and Yusuke Kuno talk about an Asia Pacific regional approach for a future nuclear fuel cycle for civilian use. - Role of Infrasound Detection in CTBT Verification
Bharath Gopalaswamy, Postdoctoral Associate, Peace Studies Program Cornell University. - Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament
Potential roadblocks to success and how nuclear weapons fit into their national grand strategies.
Nikolai Sokov and Jing-dong Yuan speak based on their Occasional Paper #15. - Legal and Policy Implications of Ambiguous Rocket Launches | Q&A Session
Learning from the North Korean case, panelists explore the rights and responsibilities of launching and overflown states. - Better Safe than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb
Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center, talks about his most recent book: Better Safe than Sorry: the Ironies of Living with the Bomb and why there has not been another mushroom cloud since 1945. - Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
An overview of NATO’s nuclear sharing agreements, historical overview, a look at their role today and if that could change.
Miles Pomper, CNS Senior Research Associate, via ntp-tv.net. - US Congress & CTBT Ratification
Overview of the present situation in the US Congress and how it affects the chances and approaches to ratifying the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty. Miles Pomper, CNS Senior Research Associate, via ntp-tv.net. - The Future of US-Russian Arms Control | Q&A Session
Speaker Dr. Alexander Pikayev Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russia. - Verifying the CTBT | Watch the Seminar | Q&A Session | View Scientific American article
Using seismological methods to study nuclear weapons test explosions and their implications for the scientific and arms control worlds. Speaker Paul G. Richards, Ph.D. Mellon Professor of Natural Sciences Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. - International Security Developments in Central Asia | Q&A Session
Speaker Ambassador Erlan A. Idrissov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States (and former Kazakh Foreign Minister). - A Political History of Nuclear Weapons, 1938-2008 | Q&A Session
Thomas C. Reed, co-author of recently published The Nuclear Express, Former Secretary of the Air Force, spoke at the CNS Center on March 31, 2009. - Nonproliferation Review Special Luncheon Briefing | Q&A Session
Watch Ward Wilson · Nathan Pyles · Grégoire Mallard · Russell Leslie
Event page includes videos, photos, remarks, essays, and presentations.
On November 12, in Washington, DC, NPR presented the winners of the 2008 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest, featuring presentations by the authors and a keynote speech by Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-CA). - Nuclear Energy in the Middle East: Clearing the Legal Hurdles | Q&A Session
Introduction · Sharon Squassoni · Patricia Metz · Omer Brown · Henry Sokolski
Event page includes videos, remarks, and presentations.
As Middle Eastern nations from North Africa to the Persian Gulf look increasingly to nuclear power to meet their energy needs, nuclear reactor suppliers will be seeking to ensure that purchasing states have developed effective safety, environmental, and security regulatory frameworks to manage nuclear power projects, including measures to protect vendors from liability in the event of a nuclear accident.
CNS and the Georgetown Institute for International Law and Politics sponsored a panel discussion on setting the legal stage for the expansion of nuclear energy programs in the Middle East at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2009. - Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities | Q&A Session, Held: March 6, 2009
Stephen Schwartz, Editor of The Nonproliferation Review presents a Carnegie Endowment report on how much money the U.S. spends on everything related to nuclear weapons. - Consolidation of Fissile Materials in Russia’s Nuclear Complex | Q&A session
Pavel Podvig‘s presentation is based on work done for the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), fissilematerials.org. - The Design of the NPT | Q&A session
Dane Swango, Predoctoral Fellow at CISAC Stanford, PhD Candidate at UCLA, discusses the goals, design, implementation, and limitations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
2008
- Taiwan’s Nuclear Option? Security Imperative and Normative Transformation? | Q&A session
Dr. Vincent Wei-cheng Wang discusses scenarios under which Taiwan would decide to develop nuclear weapons. - Destruction of Smallpox Virus Stocks? | Q&A session
Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker on the ongoing debate over the destruction of laboratory stocks of the smallpox virus after the disease was eradicated over 30 years ago. - At Peace With Nuclear Expansion: Nonproliferation Imperative | Q&A session
Dr. Raymond Juzaitis, head of the Nuclear Engineering Department at Texas A&M University talks about the world nuclear “renaissance” and the nonproliferation challenges of countries’ growing infrastructure for nuclear fuel cycle at a luncheon seminar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He highlights the need for proliferation resistant fuel cycle, nuclear materials awareness, and strengthening the scope and effectiveness of safeguards. - Four Myths About Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, H-bomb, Deterrence and Usefulness
Ward Wilson, grand prize winner of the 2008 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest talks about a new security paradigm at a CNS luncheon seminar. He argues that since nuclear deterrence relies on the threat of city destruction and city destruction is an ineffective way to wage war, he calls the efficacy of nuclear deterrence into question. - Evidence from Imagery: The Iran and Syrian Nuclear Programs | Q&A session
Speaker: Dr. Frank Pabian In this age of increasing “Global Transparency”, commercial satellite imagery has now made it possible for anyone to remote peer over the fence and view what heretofore had been otherwise impossible…clandestine nuclear facilities (most significantly, those capable of producing fissile suitable for use in nuclear weapons). The synergistic combination of readily available tools: personal computers, the internet, three-dimensional virtual globe visualization applications such as Google Earth, and high resolution commercial satellite imagery has gone beyond what anyone could have imaged just a few years ago. The down-side of all this is that those who want to keep their clandestine nuclear facilities and associated activities from being either detected, identified, and/or monitored, are becoming more adept in their use of camouflage, concealment, and deception. - The Global Nuclear Future, Realities and Opportunities
Thomas L. Sanders, Vice President/President Elect of the American Nuclear Society discusses energy future from an American perspective at a CNS lunchtime seminar. According to him, energy availability is directly tied to national economic health and the U.S. must change its energy posture to sustain and grow its prosperity. - Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Reaching Global Consensus
Ambassador Richard Butler, former head of UNSCOM and Australian Ambassador to the UN. - Symposium on Nuclear Nonproliferation, featuring Dan Rather
The full video of a panel discussion, which included William Potter, is now available through the Rowan University website. - Academic Spotlight: IP531 Arms Control Simulation
A film made by CNS/IONP about Jean Du Preez‘ Arms Control Simulation course taught in the autumn of 2007 at the Monterey Institute in California.
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Podcasts/Audio-Only Media
Audio recordings of interviews, presentations, talks, and events.
2013
- Yousaf Butt on Re-setting US Diplomatic Approach Regarding Iran
Yousaf Butt interviewed on ScottHorton.com. - How Chemical Weapons Could Change Strategy for Syria
Jeffrey Lewis interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered. - How Chemical Weapons Could Change Strategy for Syria
Amy Smithson interviewed on NPR. - Yousaf Butt on Iran, Mary Bottari on Fix the Debt
Yousaf Butt was interviewed on Fair.org. - New US Aid for Syria Still a Disappointment for Some Rebels
Bilal Y. Saab was interviewed on The Voice of Russia: American Edition. - Miles Pomper Interview with South Korean Show “This Morning”
Miles Pomper was interviewed on This Morning, TBS eFM 101.3. - Setting the Agenda in Asia and What’s Happened on America’s East Coast
Yousaf Butt was interviewed on Monocle.com.
2012
- What North Korea’s Rocket Launch Tells Us About Iran’s Role
Jeffrey Lewis was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition. - What US foreign policy should be in the Middle East
Bilal Y. Saab was interviewed in on the Mark Steiner Show from WEAA, a National Public Radio affiliate. - Next Steps in Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Miles Pomper was interviewed by the Hudson Institute. - Six Minutes To Doomsday: Assessing the State of the Nuclear Threat
Jessica C. Varnum spoke at Colby College. - Russia No Longer Wants U.S. Aid to Secure Nukes
Jon Wolfsthal interview on NPR.com. - Who was behind the car bomb attack in Beirut?
Bilal Y. Saab was interviewed in the BBC: The World Today Podcast. - The Conflict in Lebanon
Bilal Y. Saab interviewed by the BBC. - IAEA Suspicious Of Iran’s Parchin Military Base
Jon B. Wolfsthal interview on National Public Radio (NPR.com). - Encoding Geopolitics: Virus Infects Banks In Lebanon
Bilal Y. Saab interview on National Public Radio (NPR.com). - Search for rebels’ identity
Bilal Y. Saab interview by CTV News. - Al-Qaeda in Syria
Bilal Y. Saab was interviewed in the BBC: The World Today Podcast. - Miles Pomper interview on Nuclear Security Summit
Miles Pomper was interviewed on BBC Newshour. - Miles Pomper interview on lack of national commitments from Russians, others
Miles Pomper was interviewed on Arirang (Korean English Language TV).
2011
- S Korea, US negotiate new uranium reprocessing deal
Miles Pomper was interviewed about ROK pyroprocessing on Radio Australia. - Six Minutes To Doomsday: Assessing the State of the Nuclear Threat
What are the current nuclear threats facing the world and how effectively is the United States engaging the international community to address them?
Jessica C. Varnum spoke at Colby College. - Syria Faces Criticism over “Secret Nuclear Reactor”
Leonard S. Spector was quoted on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. - Japan’s Problems Continue at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Stephen I. Schwartz was interviewed on KPCC Southern California Public Radio.
See also: Earthquake Damages Nuclear Reactors in Japan – CNS Experts Available for Comment - Japan’s Unique Nuclear Policies
Stephen I. Schwartz was interviewed on WBEZ.org.
See also: Earthquake Damages Nuclear Reactors in Japan – CNS Experts Available for Comment
2010
- World Powers, Iran Discuss Nuclear Issues
Leonard Spector was interviewed on All Things Considered. - Touching on Israel’s Nuclear Secrets
Avner Cohen interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered regarding about the well-known “secret” program. Originally aired on July 6.
Includes transcript and NPR’s recorded program. - A Chemistry Lesson on Uranium
Leonard S. Spector interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered regarding Iran’s agreement to ship low enriched uranium to Turkey. Originally aired on May 17.
Includes transcript and NPR’s recorded program.
2009
- War and Peace and the Nobel Prize
Johan Bergenäs speaks on “To the Point” with Warren Olney on Public Radio International (PRI).
2006
- International Advisory Board Meeting
Egyptian Ambassador Nabil Fahmy gives a public lecture to the Monterey Institute community on Iran.
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