The Road to a Nuclear Weapons Free World: Treaties, Materials, and Verification Issues
IEER/INESAP/WSLF Symposium
New York City, UN Headquaters, April 11, 1997, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Morning Session 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Introduction - Jackie Cabasso 9:15 - 9:30 Making existing and proposed treaties work for nuclear disarmament - Arjun Makhijani 9:30 - 9:45 Discussion Role of existing and new treaties in nuclear disarmament 9:45 - 10:45 Panel: Discussion of existing and proposed treaties - CTBT - Suren Gadekar - NPT - Zia Mian - START (all three) and ABM treaties - Alla Yaroshinskaya (asked) - Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty - Nigel Chamberlain 10:45 - 11:15 Discussion 11:15 - 11:40 Break 11:40 - 12:10 Keynote address: India's potential role in achieving total nuclear disarmament - Bhabani Sen Gupta (asked) 12:10 - 12:30 Discussion 12:30 - 2:30 Lunch session (on invitation by IEER): Natalia Mironova: The need for international and national NGOs to coordinate their work with grassroots groups, followed by informal discussion Afternoon Session Role of nuclear material control and disposition in disarmament 2:30 - 3:00 Panel on military nuclear-weapon-usable materials - Disposition of Russian plutonium excess and US-Russia collaboration on nuclear weapons-usable materials production and stockpiles - Anatoli Diakov - Interrelations of tritium production and nuclear disarmament - Martin Kalinowski 3:00 - 3:30 Discussion 3:30 - 4:00 Panel civilian/military connections - The relation of further spread of civilian nuclear power and proliferation risks from an Asian perspective - Yu-Mi Mun - Disposition options for military origin fissile materials - Ed Lyman 4:00-4:30 Discussion 4:30 - 5:00 Break New venue: Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium Steps towards a NWFW and their verification 5:00 - 5:45 Panel on nuclear materials - Changing requirements for safeguards in shifting from a non- proliferation to a NWFW regime - Martin Kalinowski - Verifying warhead dismantlement and released materials - Ted Taylor - Safeguards on geologic repositories - Johan Swahn 5:45 - 6:00 Discussion 6:00 - 6:30 Panel on nuclear weapons development - Policies regarding no new weapons development as well as existing weapons designs and knowledge - Greg Mello - Prohibitions on laboratory testing - Andrew Lichterman and Jackie Cabasso 6:30 - 7:00 Discussion 7:00 Adjourn This Symposium is jointly organized by The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) Arjun Makhijani and Anita Seth 6935 Laurel Ave. Takoma Park, MD 20912, USA fon: +1 (301) 270-5500, fax: +1 (301) 270-3029 ieer@igc.apc.org International Network of Scientists and Engineers Against Proliferation (INESAP) Martin Kalinowski IANUS Schlossgartenstr. 9 64289 Darmstadt Germany fon: +49-6151-163016, fax: -49-6151-166039 kalinowski@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF) Jacqueline Cabasso and John Burroughs 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, CA 94612, USA fon: +1 (510) 8395877, fax: +1 (510) 8395397 wslf@igc.apc.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Road to a Nuclear Weapons Free World: Treaties, Materials, and Verification Issues List of speakers of the IEER/INESAP/WSLF Symposium Jacqueline Cabasso is the Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation. Nigel Chamberlain is a campaigner with the Cumbria and Northern Region chapter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Prof. Anatoli Diakov is director of the Center for Arms Control and Environmental Studies in Moscow. Currently he is visiting research fellow at the Princeton Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. He is member of the Coordinating Committee of INESAP. Dr. Suren Gadekar edits "Anumukti: A Journal Devoted to Non-Nuclear India," and works at the Institute for Total Revolution, a Gandhian institute located in the tribal village of Vedchhi, Gujarat. Dr. Martin Kalinowski is a nuclear physicist working as research fellow with IANUS at the Technical University Darmstadt. He is member of the Coordinating Committee of INESAP. Prof. Andrew Lichterman is assistant professor of law at the John F. Kennedy University Law School in California and a pro bono attorney for Western States Legal Foundation. Dr. Ed Lyman is scientific director of the Nuclear Control Institute in Washington, DC. Dr. Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Maryland. He authored and co- authored numerous studies and books on nuclear-weapons- related issues. Greg Mello is director of the Los Alamos Study Group. He is a hydrogeologist and engineer. Dr. Zia Mian is a research fellow with the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For several years he has been working with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He is member of the Coordinating Committee of INESAP. Natalia Mironova is the chairman of the Movement for Nuclear Safety in Chelyabinsk, Russia Yu-Mi Mun is a campaigner working with the Korean Federation of Environmental Movement, currently she is studying energy policy at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (EEP) at the University of Delaware. Bhabani Sen Gupta is advisor to the Indian Minister for External Affairs on disarmament issues. He is currently founding an Indian NGO Coalition for disarmament. Dr. Johan Swahn is currently visiting research fellow at the Center for Energy and Environment Studies, Princeton University; he has a position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers University of Technology in Goeteborg, Sweden. He is member of the Coordinating Committee of INESAP. Dr. Ted Taylor is a former Los Alamos nuclear weapons designer and currently a visiting research fellow at the Princeton Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Alla A. Yaroshinskaya won the Right Livelihood Award in 1992 for her work on Chernobyl. She is advisor to the President of the Russian Federation and Secretary of the Journalist Union of the Russian Federation and President of the Charitable Fund.
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