Winners of the 2008 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest

Updated April 3, 2009

Keynote Speaker: NPR 2009 Luncheon Briefing

Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-CA)
Chair, Strategic Forces Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee

• Watch the Introduction
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Video Presentations

Ward Wilson (Grand Prize)

• “The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence”
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Nathan Pyles (First Runner-Up)

• “Building Political Will: Branding the Nuclear-Free-World Movement”
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Grégoire Mallard (Best Student Essay)

• “Can the EURATOM Treaty Inspire the Middle East? The Political Promises of Regional Nuclear Communities”
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Sandy Spector (right) asks a question as Ward Wilson (left), Russell Leslie (on screen) and Grégoire Mallard (center) look on.

Grégoire Mallard

Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher

Nathan Pyles

Ward Wilson