October 25, 2022
Seminar Video
Speaker
Dr. Togzhan Kassenova
Senior Fellow at the Center for Policy Research, SUNY-Albany and Non-Resident Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dr. Togzhan Kassenova is a Washington, DC-based senior fellow at the Center for Policy Research, SUNY-Albany and a nonresident fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Kassenova is an expert on nuclear politics, WMD nonproliferation, and financial crime prevention and currently works on issues related to proliferation financing controls, exploring ways to minimize the access of proliferators to the global financial system. Dr. Kassenova holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Leeds and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). From 2011 to 2015, Kassenova served on the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:06 Why did I write this book?
05:12 Kazakhstan’s nuclear story
08:17 The consequences of nuclear tests
12:43 Testimonies
19:16 The birth of anti-nuclear movement
24:07 The nuclear testing site shuts down
27:55 Nuclear Inheritance
30:09 Security considerations
31:48 Conditions for disarmament
37:42 Securing nuclear material
39:42 Q&A
